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Cellular respiration.
Lydia Schulist
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∙ 7y agoThe mitochondria convert glucose from food to ATP, the chemical energy store used directly by all cells. The actual conversion to energy does not happen until later and happens throughout the cell as different parts need energy and break down the ATP to ADP and a Phosphate group.
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Which organelle turns food into the type of energy that cells can use?
Mitochondria is the organelle that turns food into energy.
What organelles break down food and turn it into energy for cell use?
The organelle that breaks down food and turns it into energy, is called chlorophyll, chloroplasts, and vacuoles.... all true though.
Why can eating food help to prevent hypothermia?
When you eat food the body turns that food into energy which is then turned into heat. This heat is sent to your extremities; hands and feet, Toes And fingers.
What happens to food and energy when lysosomes enter the cell?
it turns to mush.this is an improvement by someone else: it goes through the mitochondria, through the lysosomes, and then the vacuoles, goes through the endoplasmic reticulum, and finally out of the golgi bodies. that's how food and energy enters your body.
Which equation turns food into energy?
ENERGY + OXYGEN > CARBON DIOXIDE + GLUCOSE. Not sure if this is quite right, but hope it helps:/x
Which organelle turns food into the type of energy that cells can use?
Mitochondria is the organelle that turns food into energy.
What turns into energy after you eat it?
The chemical energy of food provides energy to us. When food is burnt, energy is released.
What turns energy from sunlight into food?
photosynthisis
What in the cell turns food into energy?
producers
How does a unicellular organism obtain food digest its food and turn the food into energy?
No, see as the unicellular organism digest the food it turns it into energy,
What breaks down food and turns it into energy in the cell?
health
What organelle transforms energy the energy in carbohydrates into molecules of ATP?
Chloraplast
How the body turns food into energy?
food is oxidized meaning it reacts with oxygen and CO2, H2O and energy in the form ATP is produced
What is an organelle that breaks down food and turns it into energy for cells?
The mitochondria
What does the mitochondria do in the animal cell?
it brake's down food and turns it into energy
What kind of energy does a marathon runner use?
chemical energy from food turns into kinetic energy in the moving body of the runner.
How do dogs make their food into energy?
They do this like all other mammals. The food is digested in the digestive system where the body turns it into energy for it to use.
