Soon you will watch a video about an athlete whose improved performance has led some to suspect him of blood doping. Think back to what you learned about the blood doping process. What do you remember about how blood doping works and how it could affect cellular respiration?

Explanation:

Blood doping works through a process of increasing the number of red-blood cells in the body. These red-blood cells carry oxygen to the skeletal muscle which improves the individual's performance by increasing the individual's aerobic capacity and endurance.

When the individual's aerobic capacity is increased (as a result of increased red blood cell in this case) in the muscle, the muscle cells undergo aerobic cellular respiration which causes more ATP to be produced as the aerobic capacity is increased. This is the reason for the endurance enjoyed by an individual who does/undergoes blood doping.

step 1 ammonium can be absorbed by plants, but some is converted into nitrates which are better for plants to absorb. this is called nitrification. 2. step 2 the deer eats the plants and uses the nitrogen-containing proteins for cell growth. 3. step 3 bacteria in the soil conduct nitrogen fixation to convert nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into ammonium. 4. step 4 some of the nitrates are absorbed back into plants, but denitrification breaks down the nitrates into nitrogen gas released back into the atmosphere. 5. step 5 nitrogen is found in the urine, which gets broken down into ammonium through the process of ammonification. 6. step 6 plants absorb the ammonium and begin assimilation, the process to add the nitrogen to protein.