The term aerobic is the feminine of the term aerobic and is used to characterize those organisms or phenomena known in the language as feminine that occur through the use of oxygen. Aerobic is then a cell, a living organism that needs the presence of oxygen, as well as we can say that aerobic respiration (a concept in common use) is one that is carried out from the use of oxygen as part of the exchange with other gases from the environment.
The word aerobic, as well as its masculine or aerobic version, comes from the notion of air, of air. In this sense, everything that is aerobic or aerobic will be what has to do with the use of air, especially oxygen, as the main source of energy to survive. The word aerobic is applied in most cases to certain organisms and microorganisms that survive, precisely from the transformation of the oxygen that they absorb from the environment in which they are found in other gases that are expelled as waste. In this way, both animals and humans can be considered aerobic beings since without oxygen they cannot subsist for long in the environment. This is clear, for example, when submerging in water, a space in which the proportion of oxygen is much lower than that of the surface and that is why you can only stay in such an environment for a couple of minutes.
Aerobic respiration is the most common respiration that we find in most living things. Although there are some anaerobic or anaerobic microorganisms (that is, they can subsist in spaces where there is no oxygen such as vacuum packaging), most living beings need oxygen to carry out their respiration process. This oxygen is absorbed at the cellular level where it is transformed into carbon dioxide and is thus expelled into the environment. Oxygen is not replenished through this respiration, and that is why in a closed space, oxygen consumption increases and can cause shortness of breath, suffocation or even suffocation.
