Aerobic cellular respiration is a chemical process that uses oxygen from the air and glucose to provide energy for life processes.

Oxygen is an element found in the air that is a gas at room temperature and a reactant in aerobic cellular respiration.

Carbon dioxide is a compound made of carbon and oxygen that is a gas at room temperature and a product of aerobic cellular respiration.

Mitochondria are subcellular structures that use glucose and oxygen to carry out aerobic cellular respiration.

Cytoplasm is the jelly-like substance inside a cell where its chemical reactions take place.

Aerobic cellular respiration

Science

Pupils will learn how producers make glucose using photosynthesis, which is used to make biomass and as a fuel for cellular respiration.

Pupils learned how food is broken down to release useful substances such as sugar.

This unit explores the human gas exchange system, breathing mechanisms, and adaptations for function. It covers aerobic and anaerobic respiration, including fermentation, and compares their processes and implications. Focus is on accuracy, reliable measurements, and SI units.

Breathing and respiration

Complete the word summary for cellular respiration; glucose + {{}} → carbon dioxide and water.

Where does respiration take place in fungi, plants and animals?

Match the substances to the description of their role in cellular respiration.

What type of food can easily be broken down into glucose?

True or false? A skin cell will have more mitochondria than a muscle cell.

Living organisms undergo cellular respiration to provide {{}} for life processes.

True or false? Respiration takes place all of the time.

Sam: Respiration involves chemical reactions that take place inside cells.

Laura: Respiration only takes place in muscle cells.

Izzy: Respiration is the same as breathing.

True or false? Glucose can be described as a fuel.

True or false? Breathing and cellular respiration are the same thing.

 A mechanical process not involving chemical reactions.

Chemical reactions that take place to provide energy.

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Aerobic cellular respiration

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.