Cellular+Respiration



[|__http://www.bio.miami.edu/ecosummer/lectures/lec_foodweb.html__] "Any living organism burns organic molecules to release the stored energy and use it to drive its own chemical reactions. The process living organisms use to release the energy stored in sugar is called **cellular respiration**, and its chemical equation is exactly the opposite of photosynthesis: which means that one molecule of glucose in the presence of six molecules of oxygen and six molecules of water can be "burned" to release stored energy as well as the "waste" products of 6 molecules of carbon dioxide and 12 molecules of water."