Cellular Respiration In Plants And Animals. The rate of respiration in plants is far less than the rate of respiration in animals. In the plant cell top water h2o blue arrow and carbon dioxide co2 grey arrow are combined using the energy of sunlight yellow arrow to produce sugars such as dextrose in a process called photosynthesis using chlorophyll in the plant.
Both animals and plants resort to this process wherein they use nutrients such as glucose amino acids and fatty acids to produce energy. The common oxidizing agent in this process is molecular oxygen. So skin is the respiratory organ in the earthworm.
Atp acts like money in the cell.
Earthworms use their skin to absorb oxygen from air and release carbon dioxide. Plants take part in respiration all through their life as the plant cell needs the energy to survive however plants breathe differently through a process known as cellular respiration. To emphasize this point even more the equation for photosynthesis is the opposite of cellular respiration. Glucose oxygen yields carbon dioxide water.