RESPIRATION OF WATER
Vladimir L. Voeikov
Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Respiration is a chemical process whereby cells use oxygen to release energy; a technical term for “breathing”. According to common knowledge aerobic respiration is restricted to glucose oxidation to carbon dioxide and water (a process reverse to photosynthesis) in which energy is stored in the form of ATP molecules that are used to provide energy for all vital activities. It is also generally accepted that atmospheric oxygen ensuring respiration emerged as a by-product of plant photosynthesis, while oxidizable organic compounds appeared in the course of pre-biotic evolution in oxygen-free milieu.
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