electron transport

noun

|Updated on: 29 May 2018

Definition of electron transport

: the sequential transfer of electrons especially by cytochromes in cellular respiration from an oxidizable substrate to molecular oxygen by a series of oxidation-reduction reactions

Recent Examples of electron transport from the Web

To produce energy, mitochondrial power plants in a cell use electron transport chains to convert electrons to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the cell’s energy currency.

— roni dengler, Science | AAAS, "Mistletoe is missing the machinery to make energy," 3 May 2018

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First Known Use of electron transport

1951

in the meaning defined above

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