WHAT IS RESPIRATION
Each living cell in a plant as well as in an animal needs energy for driving various body activities. It is needed For building up proteins from amino acids, starch from glucose,and for various life activities
Every cell must release its own energy from glucose. The chemical process by which energy is released from glucose and other organic molecules is called respiration . As every cell derives energy from glucose,it must respire. Every cell in our body and in the living world respire.thus, respiration is biochemical decomposition of organic compound like simple carbohydrate,glucose,in the living cells with the release of energy.
What IS RESPIRATION EQUATION
The chemical reaction in which breakdown of glucose takes place during respiration can be represented as follows:
C6H12O6 +6O2 = 6CO2 + 6H2O +ENERGY
glucose oxygen carbon dioxide WATER
The equation shows that energy is released when that energy is released when the glucose (sugar) is burned or oxidised in the respiration with the formation of carbon dioxide and water.
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