Respiration

NOTE - Respiration is taken out of the syllabus but you should know about it because it's such an important process!

-Geng Leong From:[|Wikipedia]
 * Respiration** is the transport of Oxygen from the outside air to the cells within tissues and the transport of carbon dioxide in the opposite direction. This is in contrast to the biochemical definition of respiration, which refers to **cellular respiration**: the metabolic process by which an organism obtains energy by reacting oxygen with glucose to give water, carbon dioxide and ATP (energy). Although physiologic respiration is necessary to sustain cellular respiration and thus life in animals, the processes are distinct: cellular respiration takes place in individual cells of the animal, while physiologic respiration concerns the bulk flow and transport of metabolites between the organism and the external environment.

Some good websites to read on respiration:

http://www.purchon.com/biology/aerobic.htm

http://sambal.co.uk/respiration.html

Kheng Hun

All of you should know it but I think I should put it up just in case...

This is the equation for cellular respiration: (Kheng Hun, I edited ur spelling error for respiration. - Ñ€vill€lliv€Ñ™©®) (Not my info, but Gavin's)

C6H12O6 + O2 --> CO2 + H2O + energy

Gavin

Oh yah... here a web site that shows equations for different processes... http://www.purchon.com/chemistry/chemical.htm By the same guy who wrote his name directly on top of this comment... (Wouldn't it be simpler putting Gavin? ZX)