answersLogoWhite

0

The most efficient way for cells to harvest energy stored in food is through cellular respiration. Cellular respiration is a metabolic process that captures the chemical energy from foods in the form of ATP.

Cellular respiration occurs in the mitochondria and consists of three stages. These stages are glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and electron transport.

User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

What is celullar biology?

Biology having to do with a cell.


The source of energy for most life on earth?

The sun. Plants create energy from the sun in process of photosyhthesis. This reaction results in Oxygen and Carbohydrates. Animals breath the Oxygen which is essential for celullar respiration and eat the Carbohydrates which are metabolised in the body to produce ATP.


What are the reactants and products for cellular respiration anaerobic?

The reactants for anaerobic cellular respiration are glucose molecules, which are broken down into pyruvate molecules. The end products of anaerobic respiration in animals is lactic acid, while in certain bacteria and yeast, the end product is ethanol and carbon dioxide.


Why is oxygen important to aerobic respiration?

Oxygen is important to aerobic respiration because in the last stage (the electron transport chain) it acts as the final electron receptor then goes off at which point due to the oxygen's negative charge it attracts 2 hydrogen's forming water.


Respiration with and without oxygen is called?

Aerobic respiration requires oxygen; anaerobic respiration does not use oxygen.


The Difference of aerobic respiration and unaerobic respiration?

Aerobic Respiration: Respiration that requires oxygen Anaerobic Respiration: respiration that does not use oxygen aerobic respiration is continuous. anaerobic respiration has no new subsrates from photosynthesis to continue. it is usually shorter and not as efficient.


Is mitochondria in photosynthesis or respiration?

It invoves in respiration. Specifically it is aerobic respiration


How is anaerobic respiration different from cellular respiration?

Anaerobic respiration does not require oxygen, while cellular respiration does. Anaerobic respiration produces less energy compared to cellular respiration.


What is another name for tissue respiration?

Cell Respiration


Why is external respiration vital to cellular respiration?

Cellular respiration need oxygen. This oxygen is supplied by external respiration


What process in the mitochondrion?

It is called the respiration. Aerobic respiration takes place in it


What are two types of respiration and how are they different?

The two types of respiration are aerobic respiration and anaerobic respiration. Aerobic respiration requires oxygen and produces more energy than anaerobic respiration, which does not require oxygen. Anaerobic respiration produces lactic acid or ethanol as byproducts, while aerobic respiration produces carbon dioxide and water.