Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Oct. 2010
The term aerobic is the feminine of the term aerobic and is used to characterize those organisms or phenomena known in the language as feminine that occur through the use of oxygen. Aerobic is then a cell, a living organism that needs the presence of oxygen, just as we can also say that the breathing Aerobic (a concept in common use) is one that is performed from the use of oxygen as part of the exchange with other gases in the environment.
The word aerobic, as well as its masculine or aerobic version, comes from the notion of air, of air. In this sense, everything that is aerobic or aerobic will be what has to do with the use of air, especially oxygen, as the main source of Energy to survive. The word aerobic is applied in most cases for certain organisms and microorganisms that subsist, precisely from the transformation of the oxygen they absorb from the environment in which they are found in other gases that are expelled as waste. In this way, both animals and humans can be considered aerobic beings since without oxygen they cannot subsist for long in the environment. This is clear, for example, when submerging in water, a space in which the proportion of oxygen It is much smaller than the surface and therefore you can only stay in such an environment a couple of minutes.
Aerobic respiration is the most common respiration that we find in most living things. Although there are some anaerobic or anaerobic microorganisms (that is, they can subsist in spaces where there is no oxygen such as vacuum packaging), most living things need oxygen to carry out their process of breathing. This oxygen is absorbed at the level mobile where it is transformed into carbon dioxide and is thus expelled into the environment. Oxygen is not replenished through this respiration, and this is why in a closed space, the consumption Oxygen builds up and can cause shortness of breath, suffocation, or even suffocation.
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