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Aerobic Metabolism: Benefits from an Oxygenated World

Heinz DeckerKensal E. Van Holde

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Citric acid cycleMulticellular organismOxidative metabolismCellular respirationBiochemical engineeringDiversification (marketing strategy)BiologyPhotosynthesisAnaerobic exercise

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In the preceding chapter, we have emphasized the dangers that the advent of dioxygen presented to the existing anaerobic organisms, and the ways they evolved to deal with the problems. However, this is only part of the story and were it to have ended here, we and the world we know would not exist. What happened instead was quite remarkable; for life seized upon an opportunity presented by the presence of free dioxygen to become many-fold more efficient in extracting energy from foodstuffs. As we shall see, this aerobic, oxidative metabolism opened in turn a multitude of new opportunities for growth and diversification.

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2010-09-18
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13179-0_4