Some Experiments on Breathing and Respiration
Some Experiments on Breathing and Respiration: Overview
This topic describes the process of respiration in plants and animals. It discusses the organs used for respiration by humans, animals, fishes and insects with pictures. It also mentions how plants respire through holes in their leaves.
Important Questions on Some Experiments on Breathing and Respiration
How Is oxygen used in cellular respiration? Prove it experimentally.

This solution is not essential to show the experiment that the oxygen is used up during respiration.

Plants are given out oxygen for respiration.

Demonstrate an experiment to show oxygen is used during respiration.

In an experimental set up to measure the volume of expelled air, air is blown at one end and water is displaced from another end of the tube. Why is water displaced from the other end?

Experiment to demonstrate the action of the diaphragm during breathing.

A student while experimenting on carbon dioxide is given out during respiration, he forgot to take two precautions as given below :
a) To hang a test tube containing KOH solution in the conical flask.
b) To put moist seeds in the conical flask.
State the result of the experiment due to the mistakes caused by him.

Conduct an experiment which shows loss of water during breathing.

Oxygen is taken during respiration.

_____ (gas) is exhaled out from animals during breathing is demonstrated through an experiment.

Demonstrate that water is lost during breathing.

During the demonstration activities of the diaphragm during breathing the balloon represent _____.

What is observed when a colorless hydrogen carbonate indicator is exposed to exhaled air?

How can you test for the presence of water vapor in exhaled air?

What is the significance of a respirometer in respiration experiments?

Why do we use boiled seeds in control experiments for respiration?

What is the role of mitochondria in respiration?

What happens to the rate of respiration as the temperature increases?

How can you experimentally demonstrate that respiration produces CO₂?

Why do muscles produce lactic acid during intense exercise?
