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In common usage there is no difference between "breathing" and "respiration." Both terms are used to describe the process of bringing air into the lungs, exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide and expelling the stale air. For example, the medical profession speaks of "respiration rate" to describe the number of inspiration cycles per unit time that a patient has.
Getting a bit more specific, respiration is actually a broader category than breathing, since there are methods of gaseous exchange that do not require breathing. Insects, for example, do not breathe, but do respire.
Breathing may be considered the physical action your whole body goes through to begin the process of respiration. Respiration is the action of removing air from the atmosphere, replacing it with the carbon dioxide in the blood stream, and moving that back into the atmosphere.
There is also a process called "cellular respiration" which is very different from the breathing/respiration of complex organism. Cellular respiration is the means by which individual cells use oxygen from the blood stream in combination with a sugar to release energy.
Cellular Respiration: The chemical reaction that occurs within cells to produce energy. It is essential for bodily function as it provides energy. The chemical equation for cellular respiration is:
Glucose + Oxygen => Carbon Dioxide + water + energy.
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(Sugar) + Oxygen => Energy (Carbon Dioxide and water)
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The scientific equation is:
C6H12+O2=6Co2+6H2o+ENERGY
Breathing or bodily respiration: The mechanical process that allows air to be transported into the lungs for the diffusion of oxygen into the bloodstream and diffusion of carbon dioxide into lungs which is then transported out.
(BREATHING IS AN EXCHANGE OF GASES)
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∙ 13y agoBreathing: the mechanical process of ventilation, by which air is sucked in and pushed out of our lungs.
Respiration: the biochemical process by which our bodies utilize oxygen rich air in cellular metabolism and release carbon dioxide.
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What are the 2 steps in respiraton?
The 2 steps of respiration are;breathing and cellular respiration.
How is respiration a affect of people?
Breathing is a type of respiration
What does Respiration mean in science terms?
respiration means breathing
Why is breathing not a characteristic of life?
Respiration, in and of itself, is a key characteristic of living things. However, breathing as humans do, with lungs, is not how all living things respire.
What are the difference between respiration and combustion?
Respiration is breathing Combustion is burning
How is respiration different from from breathing?
Respiration is different from breathing because when you breathe you enter your lungs when you breathe out , air moves out of your lungs . The air carries carbon dioxide out of your body.
How breathing different from respiration?
Respiration is different from breathing because when you breathe you enter your lungs when you breathe out , air moves out of your lungs . The air carries carbon dioxide out of your body.
What is breathing and how is it different from respiration?
Respiration is the process of turning glucose and oxygen into energy, carbon dioxide and water. Breathing is just basically inhaling and exhaling.
What is ventilation?
first of all, its ventilation and it means breathing. but don't get mixed up with respiration and breathing they are different!
How is breathing different from cellular resperation?
Respiration supplies energy to cells by breakdown of oxygen so is only interacts internally. Breathing is the net movement of gases in and out of the body. The difference is that respiration provides energy for work while breathing provides the reactant for respiration.
How does respiration differ from from breathing?
Breathing is when you are receiving and giving air to the environment, known as inhaling and exhaling Respiration is when your body uses its oxygen to travel through different organs. Hi
What are the 2 steps in respiraton?
The 2 steps of respiration are;breathing and cellular respiration.
What is the difference from respiration and breathing?
Internal Respiration: Is changing food (glucose) into energy. External Respiration: Is breathing in and out.
What is the relationship between the processes of breathing and cellular respiration?
Respiration and breathing are the same thing.
What respiration is what we know as breathing?
want is respiration?
How is breathing diffrent from cellular resperation?
Breathing is different from cellular respiration because breathing involves taking in air to the lungs and then dissolving oxygen into blood while the Cellular respiration is the chemical reaction which releases the energy from glucose and other simple sugars.
How is respiration a affect of people?
Breathing is a type of respiration
