Explain how the process of aerobic respiration takes place.

Answer 1

Aerobic respiration takes place in the mitochondria of the cell. There are three stages (glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and oxidative phosphorylation). The first stage (glycolysis) takes place in the cytoplasm of the cell and it occurs in both aerobic and anaerobic respiration. This is where glucose is broken down to pyruvate and it produces 2ATP and 2NADH. The second and third stage occurs in the mitochondria. In the kreb's cycle (also called the citric acid cycle), the pyruvate from the glycolysis stage is converted to carbon dioxide through a series of intermediary steps which in total produces 2 ATP, 6NADH and 2FADH2. NADH and FADH2 are electron transport carriers which are utilized in the third stage (oxidative phosphorylation). This is where the bulk of the ATP in aerobic respiration is produced and it is produced via a series of oxidation and reduction steps in the electron transport chain in oxidative phosphorylation.This series of oxidation and reduction reactions allows ATP synthetase to produce ATP. This was a pretty brief overview. Feel free to message for more details