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11.

0 RESPIRATION AND GAS


EXCHANGE
11.1 Respiration
• Respiration - A metabolic process conducted in living organisms to produce
energy
• The main chemical fuel - glucose.
• Living cells convert glucose into energy through a series of metabolic reactions
that uses enzymes.
• There are two metabolic pathways for glucose in the body
• Aerobic respiration
• Anaerobic respiration
Uses of energy in human
• Muscle contraction – to move
• Make proteins – antibodies, hormones, enzymes
• Cell division – growth, repair damaged cells
• Active transport – across plasma membrane
• Transmitting nerve impulse – send messages in body
• Produce heat – warm blooded organism
Aerobic respiration
• Presence of oxygen.
• Conducted in mitochondria

• Word equation for aerobic respiration

• Chemical equation for aerobic respiration


Anaerobic respiration
• ABSENCE of oxygen.
• Only happens in the cells cytoplasm.

• Word equation for anaerobic respiration


• Plant/Yeast cells.

• Yeast cells and some plant cells produces ethanol


• Anaerobic respiration in mammalian cells

• Word equation for anaerobic respiration


• Animal cells.

• Animal cells produces lactic acid in anaerobic respiration, resulting in a balanced equation
Comparing aerobic and anaerobic

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