BIOB34H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Catabolism, Cell Potency, Determinant

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Energy metabolism: is the sum of the processes by which animals acquire energy channel energy into useful functions, and dissipate energy from their bodies: consists of catabolic and anabolic processes. Why animals need energy: the second law of thermodynamics: The second law of thermodynamics states that if an isolated system undergoes internal change, the direction of the change is always toward greater disorder. Order can be maintained or increased within a system if it is not isolated. Energy: capacity to do mechanical work, capacity to increase order. An open system is a system that is not isolated. Animals require energy from the outside because energy is necessary to create and maintain their essential internal organization. Energy exists in different forms: potential, kinetic, chemical, mechanical, electrical, heat (molecular). Physiological work is any process carried out by an animal that increases order. Animals can use chemical energy to do all forms of physiological work, thus totipotent.

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