2. In a classroom experiment, you ground up some spinach in distilled water and filtered the liquid onto a piece of filter paper. The isolated organelles absorbed carbon dioxide and released oxygen. Which cellular organelle was most likely on the filter paper, and what process was it performing?

A cell can be defined as the fundamental or basic functional, structural and smallest unit of life for all living organisms. Some living organisms are unicellular while others are multicellular in nature.

A unicellular organism refers to a living organism that possess a single-cell while a multicellular organism has many (multiple) cells.

Basically, mitochondria is one of the cell organelles found in all living organisms and it is known as the powerhouse. Therefore, mitochondria provides all the energy required in the cell by transforming energy forms through series of chemical reactions; breaking down of glucose into Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) used for providing energy for cellular activities in the body of living organisms.

In a classroom experiment, you ground up some spinach in distilled water and filtered the liquid onto a piece of filter paper. The isolated organelles absorbed carbon dioxide and released oxygen. Thus, the cellular organelle which was most likely on the filter paper is mitochondria and the process it was performing is called cellular respiration.

Cellular respiration can be defined as a series of metabolic reactions that typically occur in cells so as to produce energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). During cellular respiration, high energy intermediates are created that can then be oxidized to make adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

Basically, oxygen goes into the body of a living organism such as plants, humans and animals when they breathe while glucose is absorbed by the body when they eat.