BIOL 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Anaerobic Respiration, Biofuel, Catabolism

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Energy enters most ecosystems as sunlight and leaves as heat. Photosynthesis generates oxygen and organic molecules that mitochondria of eukaryotes (also plants and algae) use as fuel for cellular respiration. Cells harvest the chemical energy stored in organic molecules and use it to regenerate atp, the molecule that drives most cellular work. Catabolic metabolic pathways release energy stored in complex organic molecules by oxidizing organic fuels. One type of catabolic process, fermentation, leads to the partial degradation of sugars without use of oxygen. aerobic respiration(more efficient catabolic process) consumes oxygen as a reactant to complete breakdown of various organic molecules. Most eukaryotic/many prokaryotic organisms can carry out aerobic respiration. Some prokaryotes use compounds other than oxygen as reactants in a similar process called anaerobic respiration. Although cellular respiration technically includes both aerobic and anaerobic processes, the term is commonly used to refer only to the aerobic process. Overall catabolic process: organic compounds + o2 ---> co2 + h2o + energy(atp/heat)

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