Why is respiration important for cellular respiration?

Answer 1

Cellular respiration is the process by which energy is released from food molecules and stored in molecules of ATP, the energy currency of the cell. Without ATP cells could not function.

Answer 2

Breathing is the physical process of uptaking air (via your nose or mouth into your lungs.) Cellular breathing is a chemical process undertaken by every cell in the body using this oxygen (transported via the blood) to produce ATP (energy) for that cell.

Answer 3

Breathing is the physical act of drawing in air by creating a vacuum within the lungs which in turn allows air to fill them. Cellular respiration is the process by which cells undergo metabolic reactions to convert biochemical energy into adenosine triphospate, or ATP.

Answer 4

Cellular respiration is the releasing of energy (in the form of ATP) from the mitochondria in cell cytoplasm, using oxygen. Breathing is the process by which we take in the air around us to provide oxygen for our bodies, and the release of carbon dioxide. It's important to not get confused between respiration and breathing, as they mean such different things.

Answer 5

Both breathing and respiration are required for all living organisms. Generally, breathing and respiration are often considered the same. However, there is a great difference between these two words.

Breathing is a constant process where you breathe in and out constantly through out the day. It is a process of taking in oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide.

It is all linked. The above answer is correct, but the oxygen taken in your lungs in respiration is used as the electron acceptor in cellular respiration, and the CO2 release in respiration is the final carbon product from the degradation of sugar to to create reducing power (NADH), and to transfer those electrons through a series of cytochromes to create energy (ATP) by pumping hydrogen ions across a cellular membrane until the electrons are finally deposited onto oxygen, creating water. It is essentially the same, just on different levels of magnitude.

Answer 6

If you want to be a doctor or a physiologist or a researcher of that field, knowledge of cellular respiration is essential. There are lots of people who have diseases that mess up cellular respiration, and you need to know how it works if you are going to try to come up with a cure. If you aren't going into these fields then the knowledge isn't that important, but you should be glad that somebody knows it.

And don't you feel just a little bit smarter after learning how your body makes energy?