What Happens To Oxygen That Is Used In Cellular Respiration. Energy depleted electrons after having traversed electron transport chain etc enzyme complexes i ii and iii react with hydrogen and. A model of aerobic cellular respiration in this activity students will be visualizing aerobic cellular respiration by creating an animation that shows the role of oxygen.
What happens to the oxygen that is used in cellular respiration. This compound is an essential component in intracellular energy transfer. What happens to the pyruvic acid depends on the type of cell and whether oxygen is present.
H2o is either is breathed out or used in the body.
Glucose and other molecules are broken down and the energy released is used to make another molecule called adenosine triphosphate atp the energy currency of the cell. Oxygen is used as an electron acceptor within the electron transport chain of aerobic respiration to generate adenosine triphosphate or atp. Then the oxygen along with the electron it took and a molecule or more correctly an ion of h that was also taken from food and used to make atp bind together to make h2o. Energy depleted electrons after having traversed electron transport chain etc enzyme complexes i ii and iii react with hydrogen and.