Question

Organisms use oxygen to breakdown organic molecules during digestion.

Why is this wrong?

Answer 1

Because they mostly don't. Most digestion is denaturation of polymers, which is largely a physical process, plus hydrolysis of various kinds of amide and ester bonds joining monomers into polymers. Typically would be the hydrolysis of peptide bonds holding the amino acids of a protein together:

Answer 2

No oxidation going on there!

Answer 3

so what should digestion be? this was a modified true or false question...

Answer 4

respiration?

Answer 5

What you may be thinking of is respiration, theproduction of energy from organic molecules, which most definitely does use oxygen. But that's not the same as digestion.

Answer 6

Yes, exactly. Respiration is the oxidation of small organic molecules to produce energy.

Answer 7

wow thanks