AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Aerobic Respiration: It is the process of cellular respiration that takes place in the presence of oxygen gas to produce energy from food. This type of respiration is common in most of the plants and animals, birds, humans, and other mammals. In this process, water and carbon dioxide are produced as end products.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aerobic respiration uses the oxygen gathered during the process of anatomical respiration (or breathing) to facilitate ATP synthesis. In this role, oxygen is an electron acceptor within the electron transport chain which synthesizes ATP from nutrients.

Detailed explanation-3: -Oxygen is an essential requirement for aerobic respiration but it has role only at the terminal stage of the process. Oxygen drives the whole process by removing hydrogen from the system. Oxygen acts as the final acceptor of hydrogen.