Cellular Respiration
The body needs energy to perform its daily activities. Cellular respiration is the process by which the cell breaks down sugar to produce energy. This process gives both the plants and animals energy to survive. However, the animal cell is complicated and produces more energy as compared to pants. Cellular respiration occurs in the mitochondrial matrix of the cell. Therefore, animal cells and their organelles highly relate to the cellular respiration process (Stauffer).
There are three important stages of cellular respiration. It includes Glycolysis, Krebs cycle, and Electron Transport Chain. Each stage has its important and vital products required by the animal. Glycolysis is one of the processes that occur outside the mitochondrion and in the cytoplasm cell. Its end products are the energy in the form of ATP and NADH (Stauffer). However, the important end products of the Krebs cycle is the NADH molecules, which are known to produce high energy. The electron transport chain end products are the ATP molecules and water (Stauffer).
It has been known that sugar levels in our bodies are always constant. This is because glucose is stored and released when the body needs it. Therefore, through research, I verified that sugar levels in both working and idle people equal. However, in the basketball players, it was clear that they had a slightly higher concentration of lactic acid. This is because of the breakdown of sugar in their bodies, thus releasing lactic acid.
In the case of athletes, their bodies are exhausted hence producing lactic acid. These acid are then broken down by oxygen; this explains why they need extra oxygen in their bodies. Therefore, it is clear that people participating in physical exercise have increased rates of respiration.
Works Cited
Stauffer, Sarah. “Cellular Respiration.” Labster Virtual Lab Experiments: Basic Biology. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2018. 43-55.