What's the difference?
Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
Photosynthesis
(almost) Everyone knows what photosynthesis is, you've learned it in 5th grade, even 2nd grade!
It is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to make foods from carbon dioxide and water.
Photosynthesis equation
6CO2 + 6H2O ----> C6H12O6 + 6O2
Cellular respiration equation
C6H12O6 + 6O2 ----> 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy
Cellular respiration
The Functions
It receives energy from chemical bonds of food and provides energy to the host.
Where?
The energy comes from the mitochondria, "the power house of the cell.
Products and Reactants
Glucose+Oxygen-->Water+energy
Reactants Products
The differences
-They both have products and reactants. But they are different, in fact they are kind of flip around (but not completely).
-Cellular respiration does not happen in plants and photosynthesis does not happen in animals.
-They both produce energy but they are different types of energy. Photosynthesis produces through radiant energy and cellular respiration releases chemical energy (ATP).
-Photosynthesis uses the Chloroplast.
-Cellular respiration uses the Mitochondria.