Why must you continue to breathe heavily even after you are done exercising? A. To obtain enough oxygen to breakdown the toxic lactic acid you have built up.
B. To allow the membrane of the mitochondria to re-fold after heavy use.
C. Because your body cannot accurately sense when your muscles are done working hard.
D. To obtain enough oxygen to break down the glucose you have built up.

Glucose, also called grape sugar, blood sugar or corn sugar, is among the simplest and one of the primary naturally occurring sugars. produced naturally by plants as the primary photosynthesis product, it is heavily used by living beings as a main energy source and is necessary for cellular respiration. chemically, it is a monosaccharide carbohydrate and serves as a building block for complex sugars like starch.