Cellular RespirationJamie, Ty, Jarrid

What is the Process of Cellular Respiration?

• Cellular Respiration helps in the exchange of gases and provide oxygen. Cellular respiration is crucial to the lives of all living things. We experience Cellular Respiration in every breath. It also oxidizes food molecules.

Essential Vocabulary

• ATP-it is the main form of energy used to do just about everything

• Aerobic respiration- using oxygen to breath

• Anaerobic respiration- breathing against oxygen

• Mitochondria- the “powerhouse” of the cell

Purpose of Cellular respiration

• The purpose for cellular respiration is to break down food to provide corbon dioxide, water, and energy to keep the cell alive.

How cellular respiration works

• There are three main steps of cellular respiration. These three steps are, Glycolysis, Oxidation of Pyruvate, and The Krebs Cycle and Electron Transport Chain.

Reactants and products

• The reactants involved include, different food molecules, and oxygen

• The products include carbon dioxide, water, and some heat

Organisms that use cellular respiration.

• All living cells must use cellular respiration. Prokaryotic cells use cellular respiration inside of the cytoplasm or on the inner surfaces of the cells.

What would happen if there was no cellular respiration

• If there was no cellular respiration, then the cells and organisms that use cellular respiration would not be able to do the reactions required to live.