Join Game Changers!

Apply Today and receive complimentary 6 month Premium subscription!
Quick Homework Help
(down) 0 (up)

why was there a sound when a bottle open in anerobic respiration

cecilia043

by cecilia043 at January 02, 2011

why was there a sound when a bottle open in anaerobic respiration

Answers

(up) 0 (down)
are you referring to a video?if it's some sort of experiment then maybe the fact that anaerobic respiration does not involve oxygen and that oxygen is a poison to organisms that respire through this method might help :)

jj.kim jj.kim January 03, 2011

(up) 0 (down)
You may mean in a bottle where something like yeast or bacteria were doing anaerobic respiration using alcoholic fermentation.  Glycolysis, the first step of anaerobic respiration, breaks glucose (6 Carbons) into a pair of pyruvate (3 C).  Alcoholic fermentation converts the very toxic pyruvate into the slightly less toxic ethyl alcohol (2 C) and CO2.  The CO2 released would be what makes the bubbles in beer and champagne, so when you open the bottle, you'll hear the extra gas come out.Your body does anaerobic respiration when it can't get enough O2, but it produces lactic acid which still has 3 Carbons, so there's no release of CO2 gas.  You only release CO2 gas when you do aerobic respiration and break the pyruvate all the way down to 3 CO2 molecules.

PRoisen PRoisen January 08, 2011

Add your answer


Post your answer

Try Instatnt Math