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Name: Katie
Status: student
Age: 10
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Date: Around 1999
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How do plants breathe?


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Plants take in gases from the air and give off others through pores in the leaves. It is a passive process, that is there is no active pushing and pulling of air as animals do with lungs, so it really isn't the same as breathing, but the result for the organism is somewhat similar.

J. Elliot

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