"When you breathe, you respire. When you do not breathe, you expire." - Anon.

Supplementary videos

A photosynthetic sea slug: an animal with chloroplasts
How microwave oven works: by disrupting hydrogen bonds
Photosynthesis: light (photo) reactions
Proton pump inhibitors: active transport using ATP
How cyanide disrupts ATP synthesis: by inhibiting the last proton pump in the ETC
Dengue virus: proton pump lowers pH (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
Dengue virus enters cell by endocytosis (HHMI)
Biofuel from tofu waste by fermentation
From milk to yogurt: by fermentation with bacteria
What is cellulose and how is it used to make ethanol ? Fermentation!
Biochemical conversion of biomass to biofuels by fermentation
Energy sources for prolonged exercise

Extra credit readings

• Spinach Power Adds Muscle to Batteries New York Times 11/11/04
• A Prayerbook's Secret: Archimedes Lies Beneath NPR 7/27/06
• Cellulosic ethanol output could explode Reuters 1/9/09
• Flower power makes tropics cooler, wetter University of Chicago 6/16/10
• Solar-powered sea slug harnesses stolen plant genes New Scientist 11/24/08
• The first solar-powered vertebrate New Scientist 1/18/13
• Plant Pigments Paint a Rainbow of Antioxidants USDA 1/22/07
• Why Are Flamingos Pink? webexhibits.org
• Why Are Monkey Butts So Colorful? Popular Science 4/10/13
• New Risks for Nexium and Other Proton Pump Inhibitors Wall Street Journal 5/11/10
• NADH and chronic fatigue syndrome DC's Improbable Science 12/11/02

Additional material

• Carbohydrates and sugars in your food