Module 5 Intro

Module 5—Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

Lesson 7—Investigating Cellular Respiration

Get Focused

Cellular respiration—everything’s doing it! If you think about it, cellular respiration is the most-performed function by living organisms. All domains of organisms depend on cellular respiration to fuel life processes. Scientists know that understanding this important process is key to the advancement of many types of technology. Included technologies are in the food and agricultural industry and in medical research.

As you do some research, can you see how understanding cellular respiration is important to science, society, and technology?

In this lesson the following essential questions will be explored:

• How can you demonstrate quantitatively that germinating seeds consume oxygen?
• How do metabolic toxins affect cellular respiration?

Module 5: Lesson 7 Assignment

Your teacher-marked Module 5: Lesson 7 Assignment requires you to submit a response to the following:

• LAB: Oxygen Consumption and Heat Production in Germinating Seeds
• TR 1. The Effects of Metabolic Toxins on Cellular Respiration

You can access your Module 5: Lesson 7 Assignment. You can print off the assignment or save the download to your computer. Your answers can be saved on this document to your course folder.

You must decide what to do with the questions that are not marked by the teacher.

Remember that these questions provide you with the practice and feedback that you need to successfully complete this course. You should respond to all the questions and place those answers in your course folder.

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