Adrian JacksonMrs. KasickyBiology 1stMarch 23, 2014Cellular RespirationDo you know how you can run long distances or lift heavy objects? One reason is cellular respiration. Cellular respiration is how your body breaks down the food you have eaten into adenosine triphosphate also known as ATP. ATP is the body's energy contained in every cell of the human body. We don't always need cellular respiration, so sometimes it's anaerobic. For example, when we sleep or simply watch television. When you do strenuous activities like weightlifting or running, cellular respiration becomes aerobic, meaning you're also using more ATP. Cellular respiration is important in modern science because if we didn't know it, we wouldn't know how we are able to produce ATP when performing simple tasks such as aerobic or anaerobic ones. Scientists studied cellular respiration “They found that when the Stat 3 protein was missing, cells consumed less oxygen and produced less ATP, the key molecular form of cellular energy,” meaning that the ene...