Respiration
Organisms respire in order to obtain oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide. Oxygen drives cellular metabolism, the process in which glucose from food is converted to usable energy resources...
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Respiration
Respiration is the metabolic process by which living organisms produce needed energy by the controlled oxidation of nutrients, such as carbohydrates.
In the enzyme-controlled process, sequ...
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Respiration
Respiration is the physiological process that produces high-energy molecules such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP). The high-energy compounds become the fuel for the various manufacturing a...
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Respiration
Respiration can be defined simply as breathing, or more specifically, as the physical and chemical processes by which oxygen is assimilated into a living organism and carbon dioxide and wa...
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Respiration
The term respiration has two major definitions. On a cellular level, respiration is the chemical process by which food molecules are oxidized to release energy. In the process, carbon diox...
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