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Explain the statement “all cells perform respiration but not all perform photosynthesis”.

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Photosynthesis converts carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose. This occurs in plants. Glucose is used as food by plants and has oxygen as a by-product. Cellular respiration converts oxygen and glucose into water and carbon dioxide. Water and carbon dioxide are by- products and ATP is energy that is transformed from the process.

All cells perform respiration but not all perform photosynthesis because of the absence of the plastids.

Respiration:

It is a process by which organisms produce energy by degrading glucose.

It is occur in mitochondria in eukaryotes and in plasma membrane in prokaryotes.

Photosynthesis-

It is a process by which photoautotrophic organisms produce glucose from the Carbon dioxide and water by capturing the sunlight using chlorophyll.

Chlorophyll is found in the plastid of plants and algae.

Therefore, all cells perform respiration but not all perform photosynthesis because of the absence of the plastids.

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