Cellular respiration is one of the planet’s most beautiful, magnificent, and fascinating metabolic pathways. However, it’s also the most difficult. When I learned about it for the first time, I felt like I had tripped and fallen into a can of organic chemistry-flavored alphabet soup!
Luckily Cellular respiration doesn’t have to be as scary once you understand it. Let’s begin by looking at cellular respiration on an extremely high level, going through the four steps, and seeing how they relate.
Determine the reaction products and reactants of cellular respiration, and identify the locations the reactions occur within the cell.
Cellular respiration is the process that all living creatures make use of to transform the energy of glucose. Autotrophs (like plants) produce glucose during photosynthesis. The Heterotrophs (like humans) take in other living things to get glucose. Although the process may seem complicated, this page guides you through the essential components of each component of cell respiration.
Glycolysis
Glycolysis is the primary process in breaking down glucose into energy used for the cellular metabolic process. Most living organisms perform glycolysis as a part of their metabolic process. The process is not dependent on oxygen and therefore is anaerobic (processes that require oxygen are known as aerobic). Glycolysis occurs within the cytoplasm of both prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells. The entry of glucose into heterotrophic cells occurs in two different ways.
Secondary active transport, through secondary active transport, where transport occurs in opposition to the gradient of glucose concentration.
Through a collection of integral proteins referred to as GLUT proteins, which are known as glucose transporter proteins. These transporters help in the efficient circulation of glucose.