When you eat pasta carbohydrates will brake down into glucose. The cell will use glucose by...

When you eat pasta carbohydrates will brake down into glucose. The cell will use glucose by which process?

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The process of using glucose to generate energy is called cellular respiration.The reactants, or what we start with, in cellular respiration are glucose and oxygen. We get oxygen by breathing in the air. Our bodies process cellular respiration to generate energy, which is stored as ATP, and carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is a waste product .To start the cellular respiration process, we need to incorporate glucose into our cells. The first step is to eat carbohydrate-rich foods, made from glucose (like Pasta). That Pasta goes through our digestive system, where it is broken down and into the bloodstream. Glucose travels to our cells, where it is put inside. Once inside, cells use various enzymes, or small proteins that speed up the chemical reaction, to convert glucose into various molecules. The goal of this process is to extract the energy stored in the bonds of the sugar atoms.
There are three stages of cellular respiration: glycolysis, citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation.

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