Cellular Respiration - Deer Valley Unified School District

Cellular Respiration

Overview

? Heterotrophs obtain glucose from plants and plant matter.

? The goal is to convert food energy (glucose) into chemical energy! (ATP)

? Why would we do this?

The process by which glucose molecules (food) are broken down and converted it into chemical energy (ATP) is called cellular respiration.

Cellular respiration is a series of chemical reactions that produces ATP.

The cell can then use that ATP whenever it needs it!

Two types or categories for the chemical reactions that make up cellular respiration:

Aerobic respiration: requires oxygen

? Produces 36 ATP molecules from each glucose molecule.

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