In this video we discuss how respiration is not only to obtain oxygen but also energy or ATP. The ability for an organism to produce mass amounts of ATP allowed them to evolve and the process that made this possible is respiration, which is the main player in an aerobic metabolism. We discuss how the germinating peas go through respirtation and consume oxygen but only when CO2 is absorbed by the KOH. We also discusses how in our experiment more CO2 was peoduced than oxygen consumed. Overall, we learned the germinating peas are constantly respirating for energy and it is a rapid porcess.

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