4 | Respiration

Respiration

  • Living things are able to break down certain substances to produce energy. This process is known as respiration.
  • Although they do it quite differently from each other, all living things perform respiration to produce the energy required to carry out their life processes.

 
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All living things are able to break down food to produce energy.

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