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Biology Notes - Chapter 12 Respiration Updated
Biology Notes - Chapter 12 Respiration Updated
Biology Notes - Chapter 12 Respiration Updated
Respiration: breakdown of food molecules with the release of energy in living cells.
-Lactic acid is the byproduct of anaerobic respiration. It is the fuel for our cell breakdown
during intense exercises. When it is in the body in high amounts, it can cause muscle burns,
fatigue and also tissue damaged after intense workouts.
-Oxygen debt is the oxygen required after intense exercise to oxidise the lactic acid
created from anaerobic respiration
-oxygen debt can be removed from our body by continuation of deeper and faster breathing
or continuation of faster heart rate.
-lactic acid need to be removed after exercise as the low ph can denature the enzymes in
the body and stop bodily process.
-they can be removed by repaying the oxygen debt. The longer it takes the more lactic acid
produced during exercise and greater the oxygen debt that needs to be repaid.
-process of respiration is more complicated than the equations, in reality they are carried out
in steps by catalyzation by enzymes.
-the body only switches to anaerobic respiration under heavy oxygen demand when the
body is under heavy stress during exercise. since anaerobic respiration produce lesser
oxygen but in a short period of time, the body switches to this technique automatically.
-during short intense exercises such as sprinting, anaerobic respiration is used as aerobic
respirations oxygen supply to the muscles is insufficient to meet the energy need.
-anaerobic respiration in humans in difficult to detect, this is because it does not require the
consumption of oxygen, therefore no carbon dioxide is produced.
-to find evidence for anaerobic respiration, we can look at the bubbling of yeast. the bubbles
are carbon dioxide being produced without the consumption of oxygen, evidently showing
anaerobic respiration in yeast.