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What raw materials are needed for cellular respiration?


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Cellular respiration:

  1. Cellular respiration is a set of metabolic reactions occurring inside the cells to convert biochemical energy obtained from the food into a chemical compound called adenosine triphosphate (ATP), metabolism refers to a set of chemical reactions carried out for maintaining the living state of the cells in an organism.
  2. The raw materials required for aerobic cellular respiration are respiratory substrates (glucose, fatty acids, amino acids, or organic acids) and oxygen but in the case of anaerobic respiration raw material is respiratory substrate only.


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