C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP (energy)
This process helps to convert nutrients into biochemical energy or adenoside triphosphate(ATP) that useful to our body.
This energy is needed by cell to perform certain function. Nutrients that needed to do that process such as carbohydrates, fats and proteins, but glucose is most commonly used for experiment to get the reactions and pathways involved. Cellular respiration is occur in mitochondrion, the bean-shaped organelle in the cell. The glucose or a simple sugar that involve in this reaction and will oxidizes by oxygen. It will break down that simple sugar in a largest amount and turn it into energy, which is then used to perform work at the cellular level. Cellular respiration is utilized to make usable energy from the nutrients that living things eat. It's vital to realize that the responses engaged with cellular respiration are catabolic, which means they separate particles into littler ones. This contrasts from anabolic responses, which manufacture greater atoms from littler ones. The key point is cellular respiration includes catabolic response keeping in mind the end goal to separate nourishment into usable vitality so cells, and the living life forms that contain them, can survive and
flourish. The overall mechanism of cellular respiration involves four processes. First is a glycolysis, in which glucose molecules is break down to form pyruvic acid molecules. Next, the Citric Acid Cycle or Krebs cycle, this process are broken down pyruvic acid and produced the energy in its molecule is used to form high-energy compounds, such as nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH). After that is the electron transport system, this process transporting the electron along a series of coenzymes and cytochromes and the energy in the electrons is released. Last but not least, chemiosmosis is a process that given off the energy by electrons pumps protons across a membrane and provides the energy for ATP synthesis. The overall products of cellular respiration are roughly 30-32 ATP, carbon dioxide and water. In conclusion, cellular respiration is a process all living organisms alike undergo, whether its aerobic or anaerobic. Organisms obtain food from their outside environment and use it to harvest energy. With cellular respiration, growth and development is possible. The ATP produced during respiration could be used to power other cellular activity that require energy.