Introduction Aerobic respiration is the process by which mitochondria consume oxygen and organic fuel to produce ATP for the organism to use. Fermentation is another source of ATP for cells, but this method is by far, less effective in its yield of ATP. Glucose is the main source of organic fuel for cellular respiration, which releases as many as 38ATP molecules per glucose molecule in aerobic respiration. Unlike fermentation, which only releases 2 ATP molecules per …showed first 75 words of 2058 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2058 total…absorbance levels of the DPIP would not change considerably using the spectrophotometer, and perhaps they would even remain the same. This procedure then, would not be a good way to measure anaerobic respiration. The process of cellular respiration is an important one and can be measured using simple techniques utilizing the source of all cellular respiration in organisms: the mitochondria. This is one of the single most important processes that occur within and organisms' cells.