In your cells, cellular respiration happens in a special organelle called the mitochondrion. But as mentioned, prokaryotic organisms don't have organelles. Rather than taking place in the mitochondrion, cellular respiration happens either in the cytoplasm or across the plasma membrane of the cell.
Answer;
"couples" energetically unfavorable reactions to ATP condensation in order to drive the reaction toward the required product.
Explanation;
-Metabolic pathways are designed to synthesize necessary cellular reagents as required for cellular and tissue function. To accomplish this, the reaction sequence includes both reactions that are essentially irreversible and reactions that are freely reversible (near equilibrium).
-In most cases, cells use a strategy called reaction coupling, in which an energetically favorable reaction (like ATP hydrolysis) is directly linked with an energetically unfavorable (endergonic) reaction.
If i'm not mistaken amino acids can be used in our body to fuel a process in which cell replication occurs and DNA is made. So to use amino acids as fuel you would have to make sure everything is in correct order and lines up correctly from the time it's released from the nucleus to a ribosome.
