Cellular Respiration: What Food is For | Bio Basics 🐧

We eat. But how is that food used by our cells for work? Well, it's quite an involved process, involving glycolysis, the Citric Acid Cycle and the Electron Transport Chain. This video provides some background and an overview of all of these processes. It can be a scary topic, but take a deep breath and find out where that oxygen goes! WARNING: contains protist and prokaryotic sexual references. Video mentioned: Redox Relief: http://youtu.be/eL0BH5O9Sdo Want more? Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePenguinProf FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/ThePenguinProf Twitter: https://twitter.com/penguinprof Web: http://www.penguinprof.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIDEO DETAILS Cellular Respiration: What Food is For General equation for cellular respiration:C6H12O6 + 6O2 --- 6CO2 + 6H2O Show me the MONEY Show me the GLUCOSE Where We Spend Our Glucose: 70%: basal life processes 20%: physical activity 10%: digestion of food (postprandial thermogenesis) Financial Analogy Conversion Efficiency Energy Conversions Produce HEAT Antoine Lavoisier Named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783) and predicted silicon Helped construct the metric system Made the first extensive list of elements Reformed chemical nomenclature Discovered that mass remains constant even though the states of matter may change "The Father of Modern Chemistry" Cellular Respiration: The BIG PICTURE Glycolysis Mitochondria Grooming of Pyruvate The Citric Acid Cycle / Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle (TCA) The Electron Transport Chain ATP Synthase Chemiosmosis Analogy of ETC and ATP synthase with hydroelectric power plant Efficiency of Aerobic Respiration Efficiency of Anaerobic Respiration Evolutionary importance