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• Energy is the ability to do work. What does this mean?

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It means energy provides the capacity to move matter against an opposing force, rearrange matter, or power cellular processes (like active transport and chemical synthesis).

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• To sustain life, which must be higher? Energy in or Energy out. Explain.

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Energy in must be higher. Living systems require a constant input of free energy to maintain order, grow, and reproduce; otherwise, they decay toward thermodynamic equilibrium (death).

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• What is metabolism?

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The totality of an organism's chemical reactions consisting of catabolic and anabolic pathways.

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