Cellular Respiration

Your body is constantly undergoing cellular respiration, a metabolic process that breaks down complicated biological molecules to provide you with the energy required to live. Carbon dioxide is produced as a by-product and is released into the atmosphere in small quantities each time you exhale.

All around the world most Plants and Animals go through some form of cellular respiration.

Click on the glucose (sugar) molecule below to watch the overall reaction of cellular respiration to where the carbon atoms from the sugar end up. Keep in mind that this is only one possible starting molecule for cellular respiration.

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