Essays Tagged: "Adenosine triphosphate"

Effects of Creatin.

to make energy. This energy is created by breaking down a chemical that exists in our body known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), into another chemical, adenosine diphosphate (ADP), but using oxygen t ...

(6 pages) 71 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Explain how nutrients are obtained from our diet, and the contribution of each nutrient to the aerobic respiratory pathway

figure 1, of cellular energy generating systems whose activity is harnessed and then stored within adenosine triphosphate (ATP), (Houston, 2001).They are also vital to the formation of ions within bo ... nergy, figure 3, which the body stores in a variety of nucleotide phosphate (NP) compounds; chiefly Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP), Creatine Phosphate (CrP) & Guanosine Triphosphate (GTP), in humans ...

(14 pages) 144 1 4.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry

The Biochemitry of Human Energy systems

stems work.Energy systems; introductionEnergy systems are cellular levels processes used to produce Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) figure 1. This is an adenosine molecule linked to three high-energy pho ...

(12 pages) 166 0 4.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry

This essay follows the evolutionary process of life in every aspect from comparing the big bang and biblical beliefs to human procreation.

ese things that we do are the wheels that turn cellular respiration, a process for creating energy. Adenosine Triphosphate, or ATP, is where you start out with adenosine and three phosphates or energi ... d three phosphates or energies. As the process goes a long you lose a phosphate, which then becomes adenosine diphosphate, ADP. The body then has to work even harder to gain that extra phosphate back. ...

(14 pages) 102 1 2.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Female weightlifting

tein called troponin. When troponin is inactivated, myosin proteins function enzymatically to split adenosine tri phosphate (ATP) into adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and energy. All this ATP-splitting ac ...

(8 pages) 45 0 3.3 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Aerobic Respiration

(1 pages) 134 4 3.4 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

This is about the 400m sprint, and the energy systems that is uses, from Adenosine Tri Phosphate, to the Lactic Acid system

the 400m though, we use two of the three energy systems.The first, and the most valuable of all is Adenosine Tri phosphate, or simply, ATP, which is the immediate usable form of chemical energy for m ... be transferred into ATP before the muscle cell can utilize themActively contracting muscles obtain Adenosine Tri phosphate (ATP) from glucose stored in the blood stream and the breakdown of glycogen ...

(3 pages) 39 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

The Building Blocks of Biology

to alcohol, which can then be excreted. Our cells live by the energy derived from molecules called adenosine triphosphate, ATP. ATP production occurs in a series of steps that start with glucose. The ...

(5 pages) 32 0 4.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Energy.

ns, some energy is lost as heat; overall reaction becomes exergonic.C. ATP: Energy for Cells1. ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is energy currency of cells; when cells require energy, they "spend" ATP.2. ...

(2 pages) 45 0 4.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Creatine: Positive Effects Vs. Negative Effects

The rest is produced in the body. (Natural Power Builders)When creatine is in the body it produces Adenosine Triphosphate, or ATP. ATP creates the energy that is used in muscle contractions. The bond ... TP creates the energy that is used in muscle contractions. The bonds between the phosphates and the Adenosine are very strong. When they are broken, energy is released for the muscle cells to use. Whe ...

(8 pages) 28 0 3.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

The Contraction and Mechanism of Rabbit Muscle

Adenosine triphosphate is a major source of energy of a cell and provides the energy for most of the ...

(4 pages) 29 0 3.0 May/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Aerobic Respiration

(5 pages) 42 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Biology

CHAPTER 7 VOCAB Acetyl-CoA- forms when a acetyl group combines with coenzyme A.Adenosine diphosphate- has two attached phosphate groups.Adenosine monophosphate- has one attached p ...

(3 pages) 30 0 3.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

The effects of Superphosphate on plants and the environment

our identical oxygen atoms in a tetrahedral arrangement as shown.It is usually found in the form of adenosine phosphate which contains Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) whic ... er we figured out how to chemically treat it to make Superphoshate which is much more commonly used.Adenosine triphosphateATPs consist of adenosine which in its self has an adenine ring and a ribose s ...

(3 pages) 5858 0 0.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Science Essays

Energy Transfer between Cells

rgy transfer is involved in all cellular activities. In fermentation, the cells produce two adesine triphosphates as well as a by-product, carbon dioxide, and NAD+. Fermentation is the process of crea ...

(1 pages) 1389 0 0.0 Dec/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

"THERE ARE MANY FACTORS INVOLVED IN THE PREPARATION AND PERFORMANCE OF AN ATHLETE FOR OPTIMUM SPORTING PERFORMANCE" SPORT : BASKETBALL

is nonoxidative - it does not use oxygen. Instead, this system generates energy through the use of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and creatine phosphate (CP). The high energy phosphates adenosine triph ... gy in muscle contractions which is provided by the phosphocreatine (PCr) stored within muscles. The adenosine triphosphate creates energy through the breaking of one of its bonds with the phosphates c ...

(27 pages) 65 1 2.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Nutritional Report for a male football player Question: Develop a nutritional plan for an athlete of the sport of your choice. Prior to this, ask the athlete to fill in his current nutritional intake for 3 seperate days and make recommendations.

al, 2006). These types of sports rely upon all three of the body energy systems; however it is the adenosine triphosphate phosphocreatine (ATP/PC) and aerobic systems that are the major energy contri ...

(20 pages) 44 0 0.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports