EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Biochemical processes involve specific reactions. Which is a characteristic of biochemical processes common to all animals? When plants undergo photosynthesis, a reaction produces sugar, oxygen, and water. During respiration, stored energy from the products of photosynthesis is converted to usable energy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Respiration is defined as a biochemical process consisting of oxidation and degradation of food with release of energy.

Detailed explanation-3: -The form of energy that living things need for these processes is chemical energy, and it comes from food. Food consists of organic molecules that store energy in their chemical bonds. Autotrophs make their own food. Plants, for example, make food by photosynthesis.

Detailed explanation-4: -Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Together, these two processes provide energy to almost all of Earth’s organisms.

Detailed explanation-5: -All organisms respire in order to release energy to fuel their living processes. The respiration can be aerobic, which uses glucose and oxygen, or anaerobic which uses only glucose. Because this process occurs in all life, we call it a universal chemical process.