Difference between respirationin plants and animals - Science - Life Processes

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Difference between respirationin plants and animals

Kunal Sharma · Accepted Answer

Respiration in Animals
Respiration in plants

It occurs through specialized organs like lungs,
gills etc
It does not have specialized organs, it occurs
through stomata, lenticels, roots etc

Animals release CO2 as waste product of metabolism
into the atmosphere
Plants release both oxygen (byproduct of
photosynthesis) and carbon dioxide (byproduct of respiration) into
the atmosphere

As animals are hetrotrophs they get glucose and
oxygen from outside to carry out repiration
Plants take in carbon dioxide from the environment
to produce glucose inside its body and hence are known as
autotrophs

Respiration in Animals	Respiration in plants
It occurs through specialized organs like lungs, gills etc.	It does not have specialized organs, it occurs through stomata, lenticels, roots etc
Animals release CO2 as waste product of metabolism into the atmosphere	Plants release both oxygen (byproduct of photosynthesis) and carbon dioxide (byproduct of respiration) into the atmosphere.
As animals are hetrotrophs they get glucose and oxygen from outside to carry out repiration	Plants take in carbon dioxide from the environment to produce glucose inside its body and hence are known as autotrophs.