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What is respiration ?

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The key is to oxidise glucose not in one step but in several small steps enabling some steps to be just large enough such that the.energy is released can be coupled to ATP synthesis. All the energy entained in a substrate is not released free into the cell or in a single step. It is release in a series of slow step wise reactions controlled by enzymes, and it is trapped as chemical energy in the form of ATP
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