Saturday 6 July 2013

Why do we die without oxygen?




Most living organisms are aerobic; that is, they require oxygen to complete the total breakdown of glucose for the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy for life. Many people think that humans need oxygen to breathe, but actually people need oxygen to recycle the spent electrons and hydrogen ions (H+) produced as byproducts of aerobic respiration.

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