The Importance Of Cellular Respiration In Plant Life

how it was that these organs were able to sustain life. It wasn’t until a scientist known as Warburg came along between 1908 and 1925 that any major strides towards understanding cellular respiration was accomplished (Keilin). Once discoveries were made about cyanide poisoning, and how that affects the bodies’ capabilities to preform cellular respiration, what is known today began to fall into place (Keilin). Today scientists know that the body is capable of amazing things, and that each cell has its own system to create energy and use oxygen to fuel the human body. Although before any of that can happen, the reader must first look at cellular respiration in plant life. In a nutshell, a cell goes through cellular respiration and during that process it …show more content…
This formula will be broken down further in the next few paragraphs. There are two forms of photosynthesis, light dependent and light independent. When a plant absorbs water through its roots, and carbon dioxide through its stomata (holes on the underside of leaves) it sends the molecules to an organelle called chloroplasts. Chloroplasts are organelles encased in a dense fluid called stroma. The stroma encases the chloroplasts and another membrane called thylakoid. The chloroplasts and thylakoids are where a majority of photosynthesis takes place. These membranes are found by the hundreds all over the surface of a plant’s leaf or stem. This allows the plant to produce an abundance of chemical energy. When the water and carbon dioxide reaches a chloroplast, it diffuses into the photosynthesis stages. The first step of photosynthesis is to absorb light energy (light dependent part), and break H2O into O2 and H+. When this occurs, the electrons that are broken off are sent to designated enzyme complexes; and the H+ atoms are left in the inner membrane fluid, creating a proton gradient. The O2 that is left over is a byproduct