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14 Cards in this Set
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Where in the body does respiration take place?
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In every living cell.
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What is aerobic respiration.
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Respiration using oxygen
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Which substance or substances are produced during anaerobic respiration in animals?
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Lactic Acid |
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What is the advantage of organisms respiring aerobically rather than anaerobically?
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It provides much more energy.
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Where about in the cell does anaerobic respiration take place? |
mitochondria
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Which substance or substances are produced in anaerobic respiration in fungi such as yeast?
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Ethanol and carbon dioxide
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Why, after a race, do athletes continue to breathe deeply even when they have stopped exercising. |
Extra oxygen is needed to oxidise the lactic acid produced.
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During exercise, our hear beats faster in order to deliver more of which substance
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oxygen
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During exercise, the hear beats faster to remove waste products from muscles. What is removed in the blood? |
carbon dioxide
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A fitter person will have a lower resting pulse rate than an unfit one |
True
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The recovery time is the time taken for the pulse rate to return to normal after exercise. A fitter person will have a longer recovery time
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False
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In what form is carbohydrate stored in muscles? |
Glycogen
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Which features of a muscle cell show it is adapted to be very active?
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It has MANY mitochondria
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Some athletes use blood doping to cheat at sport. What is blood doping? |
Transfusing extra red blood cells into their veins. |
