What is respiration?

Explanations to the grade 8 students

What even is respiration?

  • In fact, respiration is a chemical reaction when nutrients is broken to produce energy(glucose) to supply the metallic functions eg. movement; reproduction. Breathing is the action we do in order to achieve respiration.

Why does it even exist, it’s so stupid?

  • Because the energy required to complete living activities in cells all came from breathing. Nothing can still be alive without respiration.

How do cells even do respiration?

  • The cells would convert the biochemical energy that came from the nutrients which is called oxidation and then turns it into the ATP.

What did that sugar bomb have to do with it?

  • It would convert it into ATP, which is the storage of energy, such as glucose.

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