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diosara
diosara
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High School - 12th Grade

What are you doing every time you breathe, and what is happening at the cellular level?

What is the equation that shows what happens at the cellular level when you breathe?

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Posted by diosara on Friday January 23, 2009 at 9:37 AM and tagged with breathe, cellular level, science.

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  1. giorgiana1976
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    The function of the lungs when breathing is to pull in the oxygen our mitochondria need to burn sugar and remove the CO2 our mitochondria generate after breaking the sugar down( sugar can't be burnt without oxygen and we can't get oxygen to all our cells without lungs).

    C6H12O6 + 6O2---- 6CO2 + 6H20 + 38 ATP (energy)


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    Posted by giorgiana1976 on Tuesday January 27, 2009 at 2:22 AM