Respire in A Sentence

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    A few tissues (e.g. red blood cells, eye lens) have no mitochondria, and cannot respire aerobically.

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    Feeding relationships The main interactions in an ecosystem involve food, which all living organisms need as fuel to respire for energy.

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    Like these, also, they respire oxygen, and are independent of light; and their various powers of growth, secretion, and general metabolism, irritability, and response to external factors show similar specific variations in both cases.

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    This lacunar system not only enables the cells of the cortex itself to respire, but also forms channels through whicF air can pass to the deeper lying tissues.