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While our bodies can store glucose (for example, that's what marathoners are doing when they eat lots of pasta the night before a race), we can't store oxygen. Sometimes we can't take in enough oxygen to keep up with our energy needs. When this happens, our muscle cells switch to anaerobic respiration -- instead of reacting with oxygen, the glucose breaks in half and forms lactic acid. Energy is produced, but the lactic acid builds up in our muscles. This build-up makes our muscles feel heavy and they might even cramp up. While our bodies can store glucose (for example, that's what marathoners are doing when they eat lots of pasta the night before a race), we can't store oxygen. Sometimes we can't take in enough oxygen to keep up with our energy needs. When this happens, our muscle cells switch to anaerobic respiration -- instead of reacting with oxygen, the glucose breaks in half and forms lactic acid. Energy is produced, but the lactic acid builds up in our muscles. This build-up makes our muscles feel heavy and they might even cramp up.
What else can I help you with?
What substance related to cell respiration might make your muscles burn or cramp?
anaerobic respiration
Do cells make ethanol as a waste of cellular respiration?
No, ethanol is a byproduct of fermentation...not aerobic or anaerobic respiration
What would make and an organism perform anaerobic respiration?
An organism would perform anaerobic respiration when oxygen is not available or in limited supply. Anaerobic respiration allows organisms to continue generating ATP in the absence of oxygen by using alternative electron acceptors, such as nitrate or sulfate. One disadvantage of anaerobic respiration is that it is less efficient than aerobic respiration and can produce byproducts like lactic acid or ethanol.
What is the use of anaerobic respiration in yeast?
it make the bread rise up in the oven
How is anaerobic respiration used to make alcohol?
In anaerobic respiration, yeast cells convert sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide. This process, known as fermentation, is commonly used in the production of alcoholic beverages like beer and wine. The lack of oxygen forces the yeast to produce energy through anaerobic respiration, leading to the formation of alcohol as a byproduct.
What two types of yeast respiration is there?
Aerobic (used to make bread) and anaerobic (used to make alcohol).
How does anaerobic respiration make a person feel?
Dead... A person cannot perform respiration without oxygen. Anaerobic means without oxygen or air. A person that is anaerobic for too long will begin to pass out and later die from lack of oxygen. Certain animals, bacteria, and viruses are anaerobic, but humans are not.
What should you do when you get A muscle cramp?
Stop doing whatever activity triggered the cramp, Gently stretch and massage the cramping muscle, holding it in stretched position until the cramp stops, and Apply heat to tense/tight muscles, or cold to sore/tender muscles.
Which process is more efficient aerobic or anaerobic respiration?
Aerobic because it doesn't require Oxygen to make unlike anaerobic respiration. Thus making it far more efficient even though it causes cramps.
Can cells that carry on aerobic respiration operate anaerobically if needed?
Cells can usually make up for a lack of oxygen to produce energy with anaerobic respiration. For example, when doing heavy physical exercise like lifting weights (i.e. anaerobic exercise), the amount of energy required of the muscle cells exceeds the amount the cells are able to make through aerobic respiration given the amount of oxygen they get. So they compensate by using anaerobic respiration (glycolysis and fermentation of pyruvic acid) to produce that extra ATP. However, the byproduct of this anaerobic respiration, lactic acid, accumulates in the cells and body and is toxic. It has to be processed and broken down by the liver (when it accumulates in the muscles, for example, it causes muscle aches after exercise). So most animal cells cannot survive indefinitely solely on anaerobic respiration, but can supplement their energy generation with it if necessary.
What is the importance of anaerobic respiration?
Baking of bread(releasing of co2 to make bread rise) Production of alocohol
How much ATP does anaerobic respiration make?
Anaerobic respiration produces a net of 2 ATP molecules per glucose molecule through the process of glycolysis.
