Originally posted by Pooka1
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Respiration is essentially how electrons are dumped (to which molecules) from metabolizing (oxidizing) carbon sources (food). So respiration is a subset of metabolism which includes other things like anabolism (building molecules) and catabolism (breaking down molecules).
Respiration is the "dumping" process. And intake process...then METABOLISED (sic., must be an ENGLISH v. Yankiee thing...I'm neither).
Time for bed....
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