Biology GCSE
Glucose as respiratory substrate
What Glucose as respiratory substrate means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Glucose is the main respiratory substrate, and a large proportion of the glucose produced by photosynthesis or absorbed from food is used in respiration rather than stored as biomass.
Topics that use Glucose as respiratory substrate
- Transfer of biomass (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
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- Dry mass
- Efficiency of biomass transfer
- egestion
- Energy loss in ecosystems
- Energy loss in food chains
- Fate of incident light
- Pyramid of biomass
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