Cellular respiration

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Introduction

Summary

Cellular respiration enables the cell to harvest energy from organic compounds like glucose. This harvesting is achieved in a two-stage process.

Goals

• To understand how the cell gets its ATP from the breakdown of glucose.
• To learn the subcellular structures  in which metabolic pathways occur.

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mitochondrion glycolysis Krebs-cycle respiratory-chain ATP glucose energy metabolism oxygen carbon-dioxide pyruvate pyruvic-acid cellular-respiration