Skeletal System
What do breathing with lungs and cellular respiration in the mitochondria have in common?
Both involve the exchange of gases, specifically oxygen and carbon dioxide.
Breathing is a process that happens at the level of the whole organism—it brings oxygen into the lungs (inhalation) and removes carbon dioxide from the body (exhalation).
Cellular respiration, on the other hand, takes place inside the mitochondria of individual cells. In this process, cells use oxygen to break down glucose and produce energy in the form of ATP. This also creates carbon dioxide and water as waste products.