Cell Respiration

Duration: 33

Year Published: 1960

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Describes the metabolic activities of the cell as nutritional, synthetic, or respirational and goes on to explain those activities associated with cell respiration. Compares combustion with respiration showing how ADP and ATP act to distribute controlled energy. Pictures large protein molecules and through models explains how they function as enzymes in promoting and controlling chemical change. Diagrams a respiration stairway showing breakdown of glucose to PGAL and then to pyruvic acid. Emphasizes mitochondria as a special chemical processing plant where much of the respiration occurs. Cites real efficiency of cell's respiration machinery over anything made by man. Reviews that all past and present living things have the same type of cell respiration.

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