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If all autotrophs on earth suddenly stopped carrying out blank cellular respiration would stop too.?
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An autotroph is an organism that can make it's own food through the process of Photosynthesis, such as plants and fungi. This process produces Oxygen, which is needed for Cellular Respiration to take place. So, the answer is Photosynthesis.
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What is the defenition of respiration?
Respiration is the production of energy from food via a chemical reaction. In all the different forms of respiration, the 6-Carbon molecule of glucose is first converted to a 3-Carbon molecule of Pyruvate, which occurs in the cytoplasm of the cell. Main forms of respiration are: Aerobic respiration (Abundant Oxygen) Pyruvate + Oxygen -> Carbon dioxide + Water + Energy (in the form of ATP) This occurs in the mitochondria of the cell. The 3-Carbon pyruvate is converted fully to 3 molecules of carbon dioxide (which has only one molecule of Carbon). Anaerobic Respiration (Lack of/Less amount of Oxygen, usually mammalian) Pyruvate -> Lactic acid + Energy (in the form of ATP) This occurs in our muscles, when we run suddenly without warm-up, etc. Due to the lack of oxygen in such a sudden movement, the pyruvate converts to lactic acid (which is still a 3-Carbon molecule) in the muscles, which causes cramps. Anaerobic respiration (No Oxygen) Pyruvate -> Ethanol + Carbon dioxide + Energy (in the form of ATP) This usually occurs in organisms like yeast. This is the fermentation process. The pyruvate is converted to a 2-carbon alcohol, which is ethanol, and the remaining carbon molecule forms carbon dioxide. The first aerobic respiration releases the most amount of energy, about 36 ATP. The lactic acid respiration produces a little less energy. The anaerobic respiration forming ethanol releases energy of only about 2 ATP.
What would happen to photosynthesis if there was no carbon dioxide?
Plant cells have mitochondria, actually, meaning they can perform cell respiration to make ATP, and carbon dioxide will be a bi-product. (Cell respiration is the process of using oxygen to make energy, and ATP is basically chemical energy.) Not all cells in a plant have mitochondria, though, and most of the larger plants won't be able to perform cell respiration quickly enough to survive. Eventually, carbon dioxide will replenish the air, but the most all of the survivors will be smaller vegetation. Also, animals primarily use cellular respiration to make ATP, since no animal has chloroplasts. They, too, will replenish the earth's supply of carbon dioxide, and at a much faster rate. However, if the earth suddenly became void of all animals, plant cells with mitochondria, and bacteria that perform cell respiration (the lot of them!), which is why the air had a deficiency of carbon dioxide, then all photosynthetic organisms would need to adapt to their new environment or die. But the earth will never have a deficiency of carbon dioxide, because organisms are made of carbon, the air consists of large quantities of oxygen, and carbon and oxygen (which, remember, always travels as O2) will randomly bond simply because they exist together. But to answer your question, photosynthesis cannot occur without carbon dioxide, so it simply wouldn't happen until carbon dioxide were present.
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