The major gases present in the world atmosphere are water vapour and CO2.
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.A mesocosm (meso- or 'medium' and -cosm 'world') is any outdoor experimental system that examines the natural environment under controlled conditions. In this way mesocosm studies provide a link between field surveys and highly controlled laboratory experiments.
Respiration is the biochemical process in which the cells of an organism obtain energy by combining oxygen and glucose, resulting in the release of carbon dioxide, water, and ATP (the currency of energy in cells).
The respiration of an organism involves an intricate use of enzymes. Enzymes sometimes become denatured. This is when a certain factor affects the bonds holding the amino acids together, and they start to break, eventually resulting in the enzyme unravelling. An increase in temperature affects the rate of an enzyme-controlled reaction, as the kinetic energy of all of the molecules is increased and therefore their speed increases as well. If molecules move faster, they have more chance of an enzyme colliding with a substrate molecule, and so a bigger chance of reaction.. This is known as collision theory. Analyzing the effects of temperature on the rate of respiration of maggots, we can predict that the maggots rate of respiration will increase as the temperature does, as the enzymes involved in respiration react to the heat and start to work faster.
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