What Is the Name Given to Organisms that Use Aerobic Cellular Respiration?

What is the name given to organisms that use aerobic cellular respiration?  These organisms are generally simply called aerobic organisms. However, according to UCMP.Berkeley.com, most organisms that use aerobic cellular respiration are classified as eukaryotes or eukaryotic.

When an organism uses aerobic cellular respiration, this means that the organism can break down compounds into energy to produce cellular energy using oxygen as part of the process.

• Organisms that use aerobic cellular respiration are generally simply referred to as aerobes or aerobic organisms.
• According to the University of California Museum of Paleontology website linked above, most of the organisms that do this are a type of organism called eukaryotes. 
• These organisms break down food into ATP, or adenosine tri phosphate, which is the basic building block of cellular energy at the cellular level of the body. 
• Some examples of eukaryotes would include all human and animal cells, as well as any number of different small single celled organisms that cannot survive without oxygen. 

Prokaryotic Organisms

So, now that you know what most organisms that use aerobic cellular respiration are called, you may want to know about organisms that don't fit into this category.

• Organisms that do not use aerobic cellular respiration use anaerobic respiration.  They are simply called anaerobic organisms.
• Most of the organisms that do this are prokaryotic. Prokaryotic organisms are generally more rare and specific to certain harsh and inhospitable environments, while eukaryotic organisms can live anywhere on the face of the earth where oxygen is present to be inhaled and exhaled through the cell walls.
• Prokaryotic organisms include things like bacteria that live in steam pits and volcanoes underneath the ocean. This is in contrast to eukaryotic organisms, who could be anything from small bacteria all the way up to human beings. 

So, now you know what eukaryotes are and you also know more details about organisms that use aerobic cellular respiration and organisms that don't.