Cellular Respiration Lab Report

In this lab, the experimenter will test the connection between breathing and pulse rate. Breathing is a type of respiration in animals. All plants and animals do cellular respiration. Respiration is the release of energy, which occurs in the living things’ cells. Cellular respiration is the use of glucose and oxygen to yield ATP which is usable energy. Glucose is broken down into glycolysis, which is then used to make ATP. ATP is the usable form of energy which allows organism to function. Almost all organisms do cellular respiration, others do anaerobic respiration. Cellular respiration is a part of metabolism, which refers to all the chemical reactions necessary for organisms to survive. Aerobic respiration is respiration with oxygen present and anaerobic respiration is the opposite. One type of anaerobic
Breathing is how animals, such as humans, are able to function. When animals breaths, it allows them to given oxygen to their cells. In humans, red blood cells are the carriers of oxygen. The oxygen diffuses out of air sacs in the lungs into small, capillaries with thin walls. The red blood cells absorb the oxygen and carried throughout the body. The oxygen uses the capillaries throughout the body to diffuse into other body cells. As the blood circulates it allows the oxygen to spread out. When people are sitting and resting, they have a normal resting heart rate and an average resting breathing rate. As people exercise they may notice that they go beyond the norm for breathing and heart rate because they are using more energy and need procesies to speed up. It is possible to check heart rate by feeling the heartbeat and checking the pulse rate. Pulse rate is the same as heart rate because as the heart pumps blood through the circulatory system, in certain areas of the human body the pumping can be felt on the veins. Data will be collected and analyzed in charts and