{"id":47931,"date":"2024-09-08T17:45:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T17:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47931"},"modified":"2024-09-08T17:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T17:45:56","slug":"biology-aerobic-vs-anaerobic-respiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-aerobic-vs-anaerobic-respiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology: aerobic vs anaerobic respiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring biology, respiration is a topic. The tutor compares aerobic with anaerobic.<\/h2>\n<p>\nRespiration, on a cellular level, means reacting a fuel (typically glucose) to produce energy. If the reaction depends on oxygen, it&#8217;s aerobic; if not, then it&#8217;s anaerobic.<\/p>\n<p>\nCuriously, aerobic and anaerobic respiration begin the same way, with glycolysis (see my post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-glycolysis-the-first-step-in-producing-energy-from-glucose\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\nHuman cells use aerobic respiration, which is why humans need to breathe in oxygen to survive. Some bacteria can only use anaerobic respiration, since oxygen is poisonous to them. However, anaerobic respiration tends to under-utilize the energy potential of glucose.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK7638\/#:~:text=Anaerobes%2C%20on%20the%20other%20hand,other%20substances%20as%20electron%20acceptors.\">nih.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bio.libretexts.org\/Bookshelves\/Introductory_and_General_Biology\/Introductory_Biology_(CK-12)\/02%3A_Cell_Biology\/2.25%3A_Anaerobic_vs_Aerobic_Respiration\">bio.libretexts.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, respiration is a topic. The tutor compares aerobic with anaerobic. Respiration, on a cellular level, means reacting a fuel (typically glucose) to produce energy. If the reaction depends on oxygen, it&#8217;s aerobic; if not, then it&#8217;s anaerobic. Curiously, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-aerobic-vs-anaerobic-respiration\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology: aerobic vs anaerobic respiration<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[3355,3356,3357],"class_list":["post-47931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","tag-aerobic","tag-anaerobic","tag-cellular-respiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47931"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47938,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47931\/revisions\/47938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}