LATINO RUVOKO HES4801 02 603854 32027559 CARBON CYCLE SUMMARY OF CARBON CYCLE PROCESSES 18 AUGUST 2015 A. van Niekerk Carbon forms the basis of all life and all organic compounds that are found in nature. All organic molecules contain the element carbon(C). As pointed out by Botkin & Keller (2014), some of the important substances that contain carbon are coal, oil, and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which is the genetic material of all living matter. Carbon is therefore a vital element for all life
In water cycle, water constantly progress between the ocean, sky, land, and internal and external of the organisms. The following steps are the process of the water cycle. At first, water cycle starts with evaporation. During the process, water in the surface such as river or ocean gets heated and turns into a water vapor in order to shift from hydrosphere to atmosphere. Then second step of water cycle begins which is called condensation. In Condensation
What is Cellular Respiration? Cellular Respiration is the process that releases energy from food when oxygen is present. Organisms get their energy they need from food. A unit of energy is a calorie. Cellular Respiration requires oxygen and a food molecule like glucose. The formula for Cellular respiration is 6O2 + C6H12O6 -->6CO2+ 6H20+ energy. In words this is Oxygen +Glucose-> Carbon dioxide+ water + energy. These give off carbon dioxide, water, and energy. Pathways that require oxygen are aerobic
worsened over the years. The disruption of the carbon cycle through deforestation has resulted in lower rates of oxygen production and higher rates of carbon dioxide which is released into the atmosphere. More trees are being harvested by humans which are resulting in less oxygen being produced. Trees are being harvested for housing, expansion, farming and factory purposes. This disruption is reducing the possible rates at which plants are consuming the carbon dioxide to be released back to oxygen, thus
Carbon dioxide: The main cause of Global Warming What do we imagine when we hear the term “carbon dioxide”? Some may imagine it as the cloud of smoke coming out of factories, some may imagine the black smoke from vehicles or simply a smoke coming out of a cigarette. In reality, carbon dioxide is simply a colorless and odorless gas that is present in the atmosphere. It is a greenhouse gas that contribute the most in one of the biggest problem in the world, Global Warming. Global Warming refers to
respiration is the process of oxidizing food molecules, like glucose, to carbon dioxide and water. C6H12O6 + 6O2 + 6H2O → 12H2O + 6 CO2 The energy released is trapped in the form of ATP for use by all the energy-consuming activities of the cell. The process occurs in two phases: glycolysis, the breakdown of glucose to pyruvic acid the complete oxidation of pyruvic acid to carbon dioxide and water Definitions of photosynthesis and respiration Photosynthesis is a process in photoautotrophs
respiration The process of cell catabolism in which cells turn food into usable energy in the form of ATP. In this process glucose is broken down in the presence of molecular oxygen into six molecules of carbon dioxide, and much of the energy released is preserved by turning ADP and free phosphate into ATP. Cellular respiration occurs as a series of chemical reactions catalyzed by enzymes, the first of which is glycolysis, a series of anaerobic reactions in which glucose (a 6-carbon molecule) is split
glucose is broken down to produce ATP, water molecule and release carbon dioxide in the presence of oxygen. This reaction can be summarized by the following equation : C2H12O2 + 6O2 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP If the concentration of oxygen is depleted, it will commonly controls the switch from respiration to anaerobic fermentation. The net result of this process is ATP and produces 2 by product which are carbon dioxide and ethanol. After a week of incubation, we can observe
The nitrification process is the process where the microbes produce the nitrate from the process of the oxidation where the nitrogen compound is reduced. This process have two step to be done. First step is ammonia oxidation, the conversion of the ammonium to form nitrite by the ammonia-oxidizing bacteria of Nitrosomonas. Then the nitrite will be oxidized to nitrate by the nitrite-oxidizing bacteria of Nitrosomonas. This process is an acidifying process because one percent to three percent
Photosynthesis is a process which occurs in plants when light energy needs to be transformed into chemical energy. 1. Oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis are the two process which photosynthesis has. The most common one out of the two is oxygenic photosynthesis, one of the reasons why it is more common is because it is seen in algae,