Cellular Respiration In Plants And Animals. During night, in absence of sunlight, plants perform only respiration, therefore, plants take oxygen inside the body and release carbon dioxide outside the body. Both, animals and plants resort to this process, wherein they use nutrients such as glucose, amino acids, and fatty acids to produce energy.
This means that they use the nutrients they obtained from soil and turn them into energy. When an animal breathes, it takes in oxygen gas and releases carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere. This process is different from photosynthesis.
When an animal breathes, it takes in oxygen gas and releases carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere.
In plants, most of the living cells are present towards the leaf surface. He was awarded the nobel prize for chemistry in 1978. Only plants and animals use glucose and oxygen for cellular respiration. We will talk today about the process of respiration in plants and animals covering all the different aspects of the process.