where does respiration in a plant take place?
Please describe it so it is suitable to teach to primary age children.
Please describe it so it is suitable to teach to primary age children.
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in the plant!
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Cellular respiration takes place in a plant cell's mitochondria, just as it does in an animal's cell.
Mitochondria, using food from photosynthesis, release the stored energy by cellular respiration's several steps so the plant can grow.
Since plants are photosynthetic the plant leaf cells get most of their ATP from the chloroplasts.
The ATP generated from the mitochondria is only used when the plant cannot generate ATP directly from the light-dependent reactions. Thus plant cells in the roots and other parts that are nonphotosynthetic rely on their mitochondria for energy.
School links
http://www.nclark.net/PhotoRespiration
Middle school overview of photo-respiration cycle
http://www.mmscrusaders.com/newscirocks/multilab.htm
http://plantphys.info/plant_physiology/respire.shtml