Lesson 37 · about 20 minutes

Energy in your cells

How your cells burn glucose in small steps, and why you breathe out carbon dioxide.

You will learn

  • Why respiration gives out the same energy as burning glucose
  • Why cells break glucose down in many small steps
  • How ATP carries energy around a cell
  • Where the carbon dioxide you breathe out comes from

Sections

  1. Burning glucose slowly
  2. Many small steps
  3. ATP, the cell's energy carrier
  4. The carbon you breathe out
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