How does breathing relate to homeostasis and to cellular respiration?
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Breathin enables cellular respiration to continue.  Your body tightly regulated level of dissolved blood gases (i.e. CO2 and O2) by regulating your breathing rate.  In doign so it is able to keep these values within acceptable limtis and maintain homeostasis.
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Aerobic Respiration\nI  INTRODUCTION \n\nAerobic Respiration,  biochemical process in living things whereby sugars and similar substances, resulting from the digestion of food, are broken down in the presence of oxygen to produce water, carbon dioxide, and energy. "Aerobic" means "with oxygen". The reaction can be represented by the general chemical equation \n\nC6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy\n\n\nIn words, sugars and oxygen react together to produce carbon dioxide and water with the release of chemical energy. In biology, the term “respiration” is also used for the physical process of breathing in animals, and for the general chemical process in animals, plants, and microbes of obtaining oxygen from the surrounding air or water. To distinguish from these, the biochemical processes of aerobic respiration and the closely related anaerobic respiration are sometimes termed “cellular respiration” (see Metabolism).\n\nII  CHEMICAL RESPIRATION AND ENERGY \n\nAll living organisms require energy to carry out life processes such as bodily growth, repair, and reproduction. This energy is obtained by chemically breaking the energy-rich bonds in organic “fuel molecules”, usually sugars and similar carbohydrates, which are obtained from digested food. In cells, this energy is transferred to molecules of adenosine diphosphate (ADP), which are converted in the process to adenosine triphosphate (ATP). These high-energy ATP molecules are the main immediate source of useable energy for cell activities.\n\nIII  TWO STAGES OF AEROBIC RESPIRATION \n\nThe whole process of aerobic respiration contains more than 20 chemical steps or stages. The first series of stages is known as glycolysis. This occurs in the jelly-like cytoplasm of the cell, and it is anaerobic—that is, it does not require oxygen. It releases only a small proportion of the total energy available from a fuel molecule of glucose or a similar sugar. (The second series of stages is known as the citric acid cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle, or Krebs cycle. It is aerobic—that is, it requires oxygen. It releases far more energy, compared to glycolysis, from the remainder of each sugar molecule. This series of stages happens inside the tiny organelles (parts inside the cell) called mitochondria. The food molecule is broken down in a step-by-step process that produces ATP molecules at almost every stage.\n\nIV  PRODUCTS OF AEROBIC RESPIRATION \n\nIf one molecule of a sugar such as glucose is broken down completely during aerobic respiration, it yields 38 molecules of high-energy ATP. Up to eight of these come from the first, anaerobic stages (glycolysis). The other 30 are obtained from the second, aerobic or oxygen-requiring stages of the Krebs cycle.\n\nAlmost all organisms, including plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria, use aerobic respiration. It is the reason that we and other animals breathe or respire, to obtain oxygen from air. However, some simpler organisms and cells can respire anaerobically when oxygen is absent. A few organisms, such as microbes at the bottom of the deep sea, are unable to respire aerobically at all. These are known as obligate anaerobes.\n\nAnaerobic Respiration\nI  INTRODUCTION \n\nAnaerobic Respiration, also called anaerobiosis, biochemical process in living things whereby sugars and similar substances, resulting from the digestion of food, are broken down to release energy in the absence of oxygen. "Anaerobic" means "without oxygen". It thus differs from the allied process of aerobic respiration, which requires the presence of oxygen. Life processes such as growth and repair of tissues require energy, and this is obtained by the chemical breaking of bonds in organic molecules such as sugars and other carbohydrates present in digested food. The chemical energy released by this process in cells is transferred to molecules of adenosine diphosphate (ADP), which become converted to adenosine triphosph
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There are certainly functions that can be controlled by thinking about them. Breathing is easy to slow down or speed up. I've slow my heart rate by concentrating, probably because I put myself in a more restful state. There are people that can hold their breath for 5+ minutes. I haven't heard about white cell count, but I remember hearing about changing body heat by concentration. The brain is a marvelous place that controls all systems of the body unconsciously, the fact that we also use it to think indicates that the brain can be trained to control body systems consciously.
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Properties of homeostasis\n\nHomeostatic systems show several properties:\n\n    * They are ultrastable: the system is capable of testing which way its variables should be adjusted.\n    * Their whole organization (internal, structural, and functional) contributes to the maintenance of equilibrium.\n    * They are unpredictable: the resulting effect of a precise action often has the opposite effect to what was expected.\n\nMain examples of homeostasis in mammals are as follows:\n\n    * The regulation of the amounts of water and minerals in the body. This is known as osmoregulation. This happens in the kidneys.\n    * The removal of metabolic waste. This is known as excretion. This is done by the excretory organs such as the kidneys and lungs.\n    * The regulation of body temperature. This is mainly done by the skin.\n    * The regulation of blood glucose level. This is mainly done by the liver and the insulin secreted by the pancreas.\n\nIt is important to note that while organisms exhibit equilibrium, their physiological state is not necessarily static. Many organisms exhibit endogenous fluctuations in the form of circadian (period 20 to 28 hours), ultradian (period <20 hours) and infradian (period > 28 hours) rhythms. Thus even in homeostasis, body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and most metabolic indicators are not always at a constant level, but vary predictably over time.\n\nHomeostasis in the human body\n\nAll sorts of factors affect the suitability of the human body fluids to sustain life; these include properties like temperature, salinity, and acidity, and the concentrations of nutrients such as glucose, various ions, oxygen, and wastes, such as carbon dioxide and urea. Since these properties affect the chemical reactions that keep bodies alive, there are built-in physiological mechanisms to maintain them at desirable levels.\n\nHomeostasis is not the reason for these ongoing unconscious adjustments. It should be thought of as a general characterization of many normal processes in concert, not their proximal cause. Moreover, there are numerous biological phenomena which do not conform to this model, such as anabolism.
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Cellular respiration is the process in which the chemical bonds of energy-rich molecules such as glucose are converted into energy usable for life processes. Oxidation of organic material—in a bonfire, for example—is an exothermic reaction that releases a large amount of energy rather quickly. The equation for the oxidation of glucose is:\n\n            C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy released (2830 kJ mol−1)\n\nIn a fire there is a massive uncontrolled release of energy as light and heat. Cellular respiration is the same process but it occurs in gradual steps that result in the conversion of the energy stored in glucose to usable chemical energy in the form of ATP.\n\nIf you have a biology textbook look up Kreb's cycle or the Citric Acid cycle to better understand the types of cellular respiration.  Diagrams will really help.
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Cellular respiration is the process of oxidizing food molecules, like glucose, to carbon dioxide and water. The energy released is trapped in the form of ATP for use by all the energy-consuming activities of the cell.\nThe process occurs in two phases:glycolysis, the breakdown of glucose to pyruvic acid; the complete oxidation of pyruvic acid to carbon dioxide and water.\n\nIn eukaryotes, glycolysis occurs in the cytosol. The remaining processes take place in mitochondria. \n\nsee link.
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Air molecule???\nThe air we breath, Oxygen Nitrogen (not nitrate, just oxygen and nitrogen), goes in through your nose down to your lungs. Your red blood cells have tiny holes on them, and they "collect' the oxygen from your lungs, back to the heart, and gets pumped everywhere through your body. Your body takes the oxygen, have a bunch of reactions with them, and sends out the "waste" (carbon dioxide, etc), which goes back to your ticker, pumps it up to your lungs, and is breathed out. \n\nPlease, don't just use that as your research paper. It is much more detailed. :P
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Breathing is a process of intake of gases, and exhalation of unwanted gases. the oxygen comin through inhalation, is used for oxidation of glucose, which gives you energy by which your body can perform actions, like metabolic reactions, growth, movement of muscles etc
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the equations of cellular respiration and photosynthesis are related because they are the converses of each other. cellular respiration is oxygen and glucose equaling carbon dioxide, water and energy. photosynthesis is when energy, water, and carbon dioxide equal oxygen and glucose. photosynthesis needs cellular respiration and cellular respiration needs photosynthesis.
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1. respiratory system, lung - there will be more frequent relaxation and contraction that may be a burden to the lung\n\n2. muscular/muscles, there will be a lactic acid production as a result of strenuous muscular activity (shortage of O2)
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We need to discuss your use of the word respiration, first.  In biology, respiration refers to the formation of energy on a cellular level.  I think what you are referring to here (unless I'm way off base) is ventilation, or the air going in and out.  \n\nThe nasal cavities of mammals are complex so as to keep the air in the cavity a bit longer to condition it--warm it up and humidify it.  If this was not done, the air going into the lungs would be cooler, meaning the body would have to expend a larger amount of energy to maintain the temperature.  If it wasn't humidified, then the body would lose more water than it can replace, causing an imbalance there.\n\nIn human,s there are structures called turbinates that disturb the air flow to allow for the conditioning.
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Respiration happens constantly in many organisms as the main metabolic pathway to provide the cell with ATP (chemical energy).  \n\nThe term respiration also implies that oxygen is needed (this is why your lungs and etc are called the respiratory tract).  Oxygen is the final electron acceptor in the "electron transport chain" of respiration and when it accepts these electrons it forms a water (H2O) molecule\n\nRespiration is coupled with mitochondria in humans and most other eukaryotes.  In humans, mitochondria are used to create a "proton gradient" which drives ATP synthesis in the mitochondria.  Heart cells have many mitochondria for example, and this is because the heart constantly beats and requires energy.  Skeletal Muscle cells also have a decent amount of mitochondria, but when you exercise your muscles and they burn, it is because respiration is going as fast as it can, but since your cells need chemical energy, they have started to use an alternative pathway that produces lactic acid (the burn from exercise).\n\nEven bacteria like e-coli use respiration, though they do not have mitochondria, though often bacteria can live without oxygen and use different metabolic pathways in the absence of oxygen.
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Ill just give a few-\nSimilarities: In all cases, it involves bringing O2 into the body, and expelling CO2.  In the case of clams, the intake of O2 and expulsion of CO2 are not linked.\nHumans and frogs have lungs which bring in air.  \nSquids and clams isolate O2 from water\n\nDifferences: Humans have much larger lungs for the body size than do frogs, because humans have much higher metabolism\nHumans and frogs have lungs, the sea animals dont\nHumans, frogs and squids all have a circulatory system.
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The respiratory system and the cardiovascular system\n\nto put oxygen in the blood and take C02 out, to pump the blood respectively
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Homeostasis basically relies on negative feedback mechanisms: if there is a deviation from the norm, eg an increase in blood glucose level, this will set in effect a chain of events that will bring the level back to the norm, at which point the lack of the original deviation switches off the events originally put into place, hence its called NEGATIVE feedback.
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Homeostasis is a general concept in biology which you can look up on wikipedia. Malarial mosquitoes, like all organisms, need to maintain homeostasis in order to survive. Perhaps you are reading your homework question the wrong way.
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?? \n\nWhy would there be any disadvantages associated with adequate ventilation since breathing is occuring at a normal rate and the oxygen is being delivered to the cells?