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What does respiration mean?

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Noun
  1. The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
  2. An act of breathing; a breath.
  3. Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
  4. The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.
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The reason we need to breathe is to provide the oxygen needed to carry out cellular respiration in our cells.
These findings of acclimation of root respiration are important to modelling respiration under different moisture and temperature regimes.
She looked down at Spitz whose respiration was so ragged that she sounded like she was suffocating slowly.
We can divide cellular respiration into three metabolic processes: glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation.
Photosynthesis does not occur in a vacuum. In fact, it is inevitably paired with cellular respiration in most producers.
Humans use a form of cellular respiration requiring oxygen which is called aerobic respiration.

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