Cellular Respiration

Objectives

• To explain how the organisms use the biomacromolecules that are stored in their bodies to gain energy

• To investigate the oxygen uptake by respiration of different organisms

• To investigate and compare the respiration rate of different organisms with the help of micro respirometers

• To demonstrate cellular respiration using a model that explains the balance between reactants and products of the cellular respiration reaction

• To analyze the results from experiments involving measurement of respiration rates in germinating seeds or invertebrates using a respirometer

Curriculum alignments

NGSS

HS-LS1-7. Use a model to illustrate that cellular respiration is a chemical process whereby the bonds of food molecules and oxygen molecules are broken and the bonds in new compounds are formed, resulting in a net transfer of energy.

AP

3.6 Cellular respiration

IB

8.2 Cell respiration

Cambridge Internatonal AS & A Level

12.1 Energy 

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