B9 Respiration Flashcards
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What happens during aerobic respiration?
glucose reacts with oxygen, transfers energy to cells to use for bodily functions
What is the chemical equation for aerobic respiration?
C6H12O6 + 6O2 -> 6CO2 + 6H2O
glucose + oxygen -> carbon dioxide + water
What type of reaction is an Aerobic reaction?
Exothermic reaction-> transfer energy to the environment
Where does aerobic respiration take place?
In the mitochondria
What are Mitochondria?
- tiny rod shaped organelle
- found in almost all plant, animal, fungal, algal cells
- folded inner membrane: large SA for enzymes in Aerobic respiration
- number of mitochondria in a cell show how active you are
What do organisms use the energy supplied from respiration for?
- Build large molecules from smaller molecules for new cell material (synthesis reactions)
- Break down larger molecules to smaller
- Make muscles contract (heart beat, stomach churn) (animals)
- Constant internal body temp (mammals + birds)
- Move mineral ions (nitrates into root hair cells, convert sugars + nitrates + nutrients into amino acids -> proteins) (Plants)
What is Muscle tissue + how does it work?
Made up of protein fibres, contracts when energy is transferred from respiration
- muscle fibres need lots of energy to contract
- contain many mitochondria for aerobic respiration
- contract in big groups to cause moment, allowing other muscles to work
- store glucose as glycogen (converted during exercise)
What is the response of the body during exercise?
- many muscles contract harder + faster, need more glucose + oxygen for respiration
- produce increased amounts of CO2, needs to be removed to work effectively
When muscular activity increases (during exercise), how does the body change?
- heart rate increases, arteries supplying blood to muscles dilate-> increase rate of oxygen + glucose supply for increased cellular respiration needed and increases removal rate of CO2
- breathing rate increases + deeper breaths, bring more air into lungs, increase oxygen in body + in red blood cells to muscles, removing CO2 more quickly from blood to lungs, breathed out
- glycogen is converted back to glucose, supply cells with fuel for increased cellular respiration-
What are the aims of the bodily responses to exercise?
- increase rate of supply of glucose + oxygen to muscles
- increase rate of removal of CO2 from muscles
What is Anaerobic respiration?
Respiration without oxygen
- occurs during exercise
- leads to incomplete breakdown of glucose
What is the word equation for Anaerobic respiration?
glucose-> lactic acid
Why is Anaerobic respiration less efficient than Aerobic respiration?
glucose molecules are not broken down completely-> less energy is transferred
What happens if muscles work for a long time?
- become fatigued, don’t efficiently contract
- if there is a lack of oxygen, they will anaerobically respire
Why can muscled become fatigued?
- Build up of lactic acid (produced by anaerobic respiration)
- can cause Oxygen Debt
How is Lactic acids removed from the body?
- has to be broken down by oxygen, produces CO2 + water
- results in puffing and panting to pay off oxygen debt
What is the reaction equation for anaerobic respiration in plants + yeast?
glucose-> ethanol + carbon dioxide
What is the name for anaerobic respiration in yeast cells?
Fermentation
- used to make alcohol, bread
What is the metabolism of an organism?
the sum of all reactions that take place in a cell or body
How is the energy transferred in respiration used by the organism
- heat the environment
- continual enzyme-controlled processes of metabolism that synthesise new molecules
What are some examples of metabolic reactions?
- conversion of glucose to starch, glycogen and cellulose
- reactions of respiration
- reactions of photosynthesis
- breakdown of excess proteins in the liver to form urea for excretion in the urine, by the kidneys
What is the liver?
a large reddish, brownish organ
- cells grow and regenerate rapidly
What are metabolic functions of the liver
- detoxifying poisonous substances (ethanol in alcoholic drinks)
- passing breakdown products into blood-> excreted in urine via kidneys
- breaking down old, worn out blood cells and storing iron until need to synthesise more blood cells
How does the body get rid of the lactic acid?
- blood flowing through the muscles transports the lactic acid to the liver
- converted back into glucose
- repays oxygen debt once all the glucose is broken down in aerobic respiration to form CO2 and water
