My Lab on Cellular Respiration

Cellular respiration also known as oxidative metabolism is important to convert biochemical energy from nutrients in the cells of living organisms to useful energy known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Without cellular respiration living organisms would not be able to sustain life simply because nutrients would not metabolize in a productive manner. Cellular respirations was implemented in this laboratory by measuring the amount of O2 consumed/used by inserting respirometers that consisted of germinating and non-germinating peas into room temperature baths and low temperature baths. Evidently, in the respirometer that was placed in the room temperature bath and contained the germinating peas had the most O2 consumed. At 20 minutes a total of 0.16 mL of O2 was used. In addition, the usage increased throughout the 20 minute time span gradually from 0.11 to 0.16.

Introduction

Cell respiration is the means by which the cells of an organism extract energy stored in food and transfer that energy to molecules of ATP. The equation for this process is as follows:

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