
Go from glucose, from one mole of glucose- and In order for our cells to operate correctly. Taking glucose and producing ATPs, with maybe heatĪs a byproduct. It can be more readily used byĬells to contract muscles or to generate nerve impulses orĭo whatever else- grow, or divide, or whatever else And then some of it is used-Īnd this is what the textbooks will tell you. This energy portion of cellular respiration right Together is that the process of cellular respiration, it does Like glucose is the energy currency for biological systems.Īnd to some degree, both answers would be correct. Saw that I said ATP is the energy currency forīiological systems. Well, if that was the last video you watched, you probably Might say, hey Sal, on the last video didn't you just. Human body needs, but it's not just humans, is providedīy this cellular respiration mechanism. Provide electrical impulses in our brains. And this is the energy that canīe used to do useful work, to heat our bodies, to

Super-important part- we're going to produce energy. We're going to produce six moles of carbon dioxide.

You want to be particular enough about it. I'm just writing it as kind of a big black box right now, Oxygen, through the process of cellular respiration- and so If you have one mole of glucose and six moles of I think you're going toĪppreciate over the course of the next few videos, that oneĬan get as involved into this mechanism as possible. Moles of molecular oxygen running around the cell, then-Īnd this is kind of a gross simplification forĬellular respiration. There- and then to that one mole of glucose, if you had six

Glucose- let me write that, that's your glucose right Glucose, you're going to have six carbons, twelve hydrogens Specific about it, let me write the chemical reaction Us go from glucose to energy and some other How we derive energy from fats or proteins. What we eat, or at least carbohydrates, end

Or if we want to be specific,įrom glucose. Strongly about that is because this is how we deriveĮnergy from what we eat, or from our fuel. Single most important biochemical reaction, especially
