Peroxisomes use oxygen to detoxify harmful substances. These organelles and microbodies are found in the vast majority of eukaryotic cells.
Oxygen will relight a glowing splint (taper). Any type of combustion uses oxygen. We, as with most living creatures, breathe oxygen.
Photosynthesis is the process that uses light energy to make new substances that have chemical energy.
Breathing
Oxygen is part of the mixture of gases we breath. Therefore, burning wood uses the oxygen in the atmosphere.
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The organelles that uses molecular oxygen to convert and detoxify harmful substances are the peroxisomes. They are found in the cytoplasm of the cell.
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Peroxisomes are membranous sacs containing powerful oxidase enzymes that use molecular oxygen to detoxify a number of harmful or poisonous substances including alcohol and formaldehyde.(found in Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology, edition 9, Elaine Marieb p. 73)
Your body uses antibodies to attack any harmful substances in your body. These harmful substances are called antigens.
Because there are many harmful sea animals who can harm humans and there is no oxygen under the sea to breathe in.
uses for the element oxygen?
Toxic oxygen--.When oxygen is used by the body, most of it is converted to water. However, a small fraction of the oxygen breathed is converted to toxic oxygen. The body uses several different processes for preventing and repairing toxic-oxygen damage.
Glucose (sugar) and oxygen are produced. Photosynthesis uses carbon dioxide and water. It needs sunlight to proceed.
It doesn't remove it. It uses Oxidation to add oxygen to the Carbon Monoxide to turn it into Carbon Dioxide, which isn't as harmful.
Oxygen will relight a glowing splint (taper). Any type of combustion uses oxygen. We, as with most living creatures, breathe oxygen.
Advantages are: - it uses less energy and is less likely to experience harmful mutation during reproduction - it enables the body to absorb a large amount of the needed substances in food