Physical Education GCSE
Aerobic respiration
What Aerobic respiration means in Physical Education GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Aerobic respiration
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Reference: OCR
Red blood cells are central to aerobic respiration and therefore to sustained muscular work during exercise by supplying muscles with oxygen.
Topics that use Aerobic respiration
Related terms
- Capillaries
- cardiac output
- Double circulation
- Haemoglobin
- Heart chamber and valve structure
- One-way blood flow
- Oxygenation states of blood
- Pulmonary circuit
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