Respiration

• What is respiration 


  When glucose is hydrolysed using O2 to release ATP and producing CO2 and H2O
• What is the ATP used for

  all the metabolic reactions that take place in the body, movement, body temperature, synthesis of molecules and active transport
• ATP can’t leave cells so each cell needs to produce its own
• ATP is efficient as it’s only small packets of energy so lots isn’t wasted
• Not all chemical energy is released in respiration as some is lost as heat
• mitochondria

  A) matrix

  B) granule

  C) DNA

  D) cristae

  E) ATP synthase

  F) inter membrane space

  G) inner membrane

  H) outer membrane

  I) ribosome

  
• A fold in the inner membrane of mitochondria is called a cristae and the space between them is called the matrix
• Coenzymes such as NAD and FAD are involved in various stages of respiration