The Beautiful Cycle of Carbon and Oxygen In Your Body

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OXYGEN:
Electron transport chain (O2 to water): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E....lectron_transport_ch

How Sam Ruben discovered that the oxygen that plants exhale comes from water, and not CO2: http://bit.ly/1vv1p0n

CARBON:
How plants convert CO2 into carbohydrates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L....ight-independent_rea

Carbohydrates turn into pyruvate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycolysis

Pyruvate powers the citric acid cycle, turning to CO2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle

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Music: "Ouroboros" by Kevin MacLeod

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