Structure
Mitochondria
Convert energy from food into ATP, the cell's usable energy.
Cellular respiration
Breaking down sugars and other fuels, mostly in mitochondria, to make ATP.Source: OpenStax, 2018Source: Mitchell, 1961
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How Cellular respiration connects
Cellular respiration happens in
Cellular respiration involves
Molecule
ATP
The molecule cells use to carry energy. Most of it is made by ATP synthase, a rotating molecular machine.
Cellular respiration is involved in
Process
Carbon cycle
The movement of carbon among the air, oceans, living things, soils and rocks.
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Sources & further reading
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Biology 2e (opens the original in a new tab)
OpenStax (2018). OpenStax, Rice University.
Free introductory college textbook.
TextbookEducationalLicence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (linked, not reused)
Coupling of phosphorylation to electron and hydrogen transfer by a chemi-osmotic type of mechanism (opens the original in a new tab)
Mitchell P (1961). Nature 191:144-148.
The chemiosmotic hypothesis for how cells make ATP.
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