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Kieron Fenn Coursework: respiration Biology For our second piece of biology coursework, we had to how be respiration changes as we do exercise. Respiration is a reaction that takes place in every cell in life and it is how every cell is able to get its energy. ATP is the energy that is used and produced by all cells and cells use it for lots of different tasks. The energy can be used to actively transport, through absorption against a concentration gradient, material across membranes. There are two types of useful respiration that we plan to investigate, aerobic and also anaerobic. Most respiration that takes place is aerobic because the energy is more constantly produced. Aerobic respiration is the release of energy from the breakdown of glucose, by combining it with oxygen inside living cells (the energy is actually contained inside glucose molecules) Aerobic respiration is a ver y efficient method of producing energy; one molecule...

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