Questions tagged [respiration]
The exchange of gases across organs that facilitate transport of the gases to and from the cells of the organism.
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Can fermentation and aerobic respiration occur at the same time?
In muscle cells during exercise, does lactic acid fermentation and aeorobic respiration occur at the same time, and does this mean the cell makes more or less ATP during this time?
The cell can't ...
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Is there a known efficiency rate for CO2 capture from ambient air in photosynthesising plants?
When humans take in air to their lungs, we capture about 5% of the total quantity of the air as oxygen (which in turn equals about 24% of the available oxygen in the air)
Is there an equivalent rate ...
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How long to breathe (the equivalent of) all of the atmosphere? [closed]
I have done some rough calculations of how long it might take humanity: approx 80,000 years (that's taking Earth's population as 7.5 billion, 11,000 litres a day of breathing, the weight of 1 litre of ...
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combustion vs biological oxidation of glucose [duplicate]
I am a high school student and I am a little confused in cellular respiration,
To represent respiration many biology text books just writes, C6H12O6 + 6 O2 --> 6 CO2 + 6 H2O But in actual ...
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How does gas equilibration occur in the alveolus, numerically?
I am attempting to model gas exchange across the alveolar membrane. My main question is there a direct exchange of O2 molecules for CO2 molecules? If so, then my model predicts (assuming alveolar ...
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Are the IRV and ERV equal in amount?
I am reading about Inspiratory Reserve Volume and Expiratory Reserve Volume in my textbook. So my general question is aren't the two terms show the same amount of air ?
I would like to tell you why I ...
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Is the diaphragm made of two muscles?
Is there a 'crural' and 'costal' parts of the diaphragm as suggested in this paper or is it just a single muscle?
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Why does exhaled air still contain oxygen?
I am a high school student and I am a little confused in the concept of breathing:
My confusion is that, when we talk of exchange of gases we say that gases always diffuse from their high "...
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Can all oxygen be provided cutaneous in humans?
What partial pressure of oxygen is needed on the skin to completely replace the lungs function as oxygen receivers? Respiration has other functions too. I am only asking about oxygen intake.
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Why is thoracic breathing dominant in women while abdominal breathing is dominant in men?
In human males, lateral movement of thorax constitutes 25% of breathing while abdominal movement accounts for 75% of breathing. It is exactly the opposite in the case of women.
I got this piece of ...
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Will obligate aerobic bacteria die if placed in a buffer solution even in the presence of oxygen?
The electron transport chain in aerobic bacteria functions by pumping H+ out of the cell to establish a concentration gradient.
So if the bacteria are placed in a buffer solution having pH equal to ...
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How do plants respire at night?
If the stomata close during the night to conserve water, how does the plant get oxygen for respiration when they are closed? Do they not fully close? Does the plant's metabolism slow down to ...
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Do humans emit more carbon through respiration or defecation?
Where does most of the carbon we ingest go? I understand that a large amount is exhaled as carbon dioxide, but what percent is defecated (and theoretically deposited in the ground)?
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What happens if ace2 from lungs is removed? Will there be any major impact on our body?
when ace2 receptors are not present in the lungs will we experience any disturbance or suffer from any other problems
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Unlike humans, why do plants not have something blood-like to transport $O_2$ throughout their body?
Since plants have a large number of stomata at different parts of their body, they can get $O_2$ at almost every part of the plant and so, they don't need to transport it throughout the whole body ...
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Respiration and Photosynthesis of Plant [duplicate]
With the respiration and photosynthesis relationship we know that the products of one of the processes are the reactants of the other. Why do plants still need a constant supply of oxygen, or carbon ...
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Is breathing a reflex action or is it an intrinsic process?
The process of breathing is controlled by respiratory centers in the brain stem. Do these centers have an innate activity, i.e., just send out signals to breathing muscles intrinsically, and have the ...
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Do plants take in the same amount of CO2 as they release?
There are many claims in the media that trees remove more carbon dioxide form the atmosphere than they release back into the atmosphere. By what chemical pathway can this occur?
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Oxygen uptake with gills from water vs lungs from atmosphere
The concentration of oxygen in water tends to be around 6.5-8 mg/L. In the atmosphere, it is 21%, one liter of air weighs roughly 1.25 gram, so, oxygen concentration is 0.25 g/L or 250 mg/L. So, lungs ...
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How does chest wall compliance affect functional residual capacity (FRC)?
The functional residual capacity is made up of expiratory reserve volume (ERV) plus the residual volume (RV) - i.e. the volume of air remaining in the lungs after passive expiration.
Compliance of ...
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Are there land animals that use gill-like organs instead of lungs?
Among aquatic, water-breathing animals, gills and other continuous-flow breathing methods dominate over lungs and other storage-based breathing methods as in land animals. Notably, axolotls have gill-...
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Can all animals breathe manually?
Originally I was pondering about why we have the ability to breathe manually. I couldn't think of any tangible advantage, given that the body can develop mechanisms to regulate the rate of breathing ...
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Lungs permeability
My question is:
$O_2$ and $CO_2$ pass to (in & out) the bloodstream due to difference in partial pressure and its permeability to those gases (I suppose that's why no $N_2$ passes). So, to what ...
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Is there any organism that is born with all the nutrients and resources needed for their entire lifetime?
I understand that adult mayflies have no mouth, but they do take in oxygen through openings in their exoskeleton.
Is there any organism that does not need to ingest any type of nutrition and does not ...
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What is a deep exhalation/inhalation?
I tried to find the academic definition of deep exhalation/inhalation but found nothing special.
I speculate that the correct definition is as follows:
ā¢ Deep ...
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Why does affinity of Hemoglobin increases for Oxygen in carbon monoxide poisoning?
I have studied this in almost every physiology book but I just can't understand how carbon monoxide can affect oxygen's affinity to Hemoglobin. I know that there is left shift in oxygen dissociation ...
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How does shortage of oxygen halt the NADH dehydrogenase complex?
I understand that in the absence of oxygen the functioning of cytochrome c oxidase stops because it is its substrate. However I donāt understand how stopping cytochrome c oxidase also stops the ...
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What triggers the switch between aerobic and anaerobic respiration?
I understand that when there is a shortage of oxygen cells convert the pyruvic acid from glycolysis to lactic acid to regenerate NAD+. What I donāt understand is how they switch to anaerobic ...
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Formula for Oxygen Consumption for Atlantic Salmon (Mathematical) - insecurities regarding variable
The oxygen is calculated in mg per kg per something, so what does $h^{-1}$ stand for? hours maybe?
The formula given below is an estimation of oxygen consumption for Atlantic salmon
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How are electrons entering the electron transport chain in cellular respiration energised (excited)?
In photosynthesis, electrons are excited by light energy from the sun (photoactivated).
How do they become excited in human cellular respiration?
I believe it has something to do with NADH and ...
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Calculation of Respiration Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems Based on Total Respiration (RT)
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Researchers have been studying a temperate grassland ecosystem with the view to understand it's current status with regard to carbon inputs and outputs and to identify whether the grassland ...
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What does the difference between GPP - NPP represent?
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Researchers have been studying a temperate grassland ecosystem with the view to understand it's current status with regard to carbon inputs and outputs and to identify whether the grassland ...
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Why is ATP synthase sometimes referred to as ATPase?
Quite a few times I have seen the term āATPaseā used for what I would consider ATP synthase. For example, my text has:
āThe phosphorylation of ADP to ATP is also catalysed by the enzyme ATPase.ā
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If the effect of increase CO2 in the air has a negative effect, why doesn't decreased CO2 have a positive effect?
I recently asked a question about whether there were studies on the effects of reduced CO2 level air and got what sounds like a good answer:
Are there studies on the effect of reduced CO2 levels on ...
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Why does carbon dioxide diffuse easier through the bilipid layer than oxygen?
When gas exchange occurs during respiration, the pressure of oxygen in alveoli is around 105 mmHg, whereas in the blood vessels in close contact with alveoli is 40 mmHg. For carbon dioxide the values ...
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Surviving only on another's exhales?
While reading this - Surviving under water in air bubble - this question came to me:
How long can an adult person survive on breathing in only exhales of another adult person? Can this be even ...
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Why is the V/Q Ratio 0.8 not 1?
According to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilation/perfusion_ratio the ideal V/Q Ratio would be 1.0 because 1 L of blood can hold about 200 mL of oxygen and 1L of humidified air has about 200 mL ...
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Could fish safely “breathe” pure oxygen in their water?
I've heard it said various times before that humans can't breathe pure oxygen, or at least not for very long, before it would kill us. But during a discussion on Worldbuilding, the difference between ...
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Do fat people have more chances of developing nitrogen bends?
I was reading some text on deep sea physiology. I got to know that solubility of nitrogen in fat is five times that in water. The exact text from the book animal physiology adaptation and environment ...
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What are the sources of molecular hydrogen in human breath?
In the BBC News article CES 2019: Tech preview of the expo's hottest new gadgets there is a new product that one can use to measure the hydrogen in ones breath, and this is supposed to have some ...
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What's the relationship between oxygen consumption and ambient oxygen concentration for a lobster?
I was looking at a research paper by Thomas (1954) and came across a graph with ambient oxygen concentration plotted against oxygen consumption rate of a European lobster kept in water.
As we can see,...
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In electron transport system the final acceptor of proton is?
My lecture notes say that the answer to this is inorganic phosphate (iP)..and the question is about proton not electron so the answer can't be oxygen. But I don't understand how is the answer iP
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Are the bacteria doing the same photosynthesis as plants do?
I mean Plants during photosynthesis produce oxygen but Do bacteria also produce oxygen during photosynthesis or produce other gases?
If yes , how do these bacteria process photosynthesis by ...
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Is there any evidence of causation for breathing rate to affect blood pressure in a human?
I did some research and trials, and with 5 trials for a normal heart rate and 5 done 45 seconds into breath holding, the results came back showing that my heart rate of 116/65 mmHg increased to 138/90 ...
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What does this graph explain?
I find this graph incredibly confusing. Is it saying that when there is a decreased affinity (of hemoglobin to oxygen, I think?), the partial pressure of oxygen increases with the same percent ...
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Light Hyperoxia
Imagine you're in some lowland way below sea level were the oxygen partial pressure is higher than at sea level but still lower than the 0.5atm limit. Would their be any effect that isn't deadly or ...
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Is too much CO2 in the air toxic?
I know that if there is too much CO2 in the air we will have too much greenhouse effect.
I would like to know if there is too much CO2 in the room, something like 3% while there is also more that ...
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Does an old growth forest ecosystem produce more oxygen than it consumes?
I would like to consider an old growth forest ecosystem such as a large part of the Amazonian forest. It is common to refer to such beautiful forests as a source of oxygen for the world. For example, ...
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What is the benefit of oxygen tanks to persons trappped in an enclosed space?
When people are enclosed in an air-tight space, the levels of carbon dioxide will rise to lethal levels (hypercapnia) long before the oxygen is exhausted (hypoxia). For example, the astronauts of ...
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Anaerobic Respiration vs Aerobic Respiration during physical activity
So I was wondering about the difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration on the context of burning calories. While swimming we can choose to keep our head up and breathe, or keep our head ...
