BIOL 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Carbohydrate, Cellular Respiration, Chon
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Animals use their energy to move around, but plants are sessile. However, plants still use energy to pump ions across gradients. Remember that decomposers play a vital role in the cycling of nutrients especially carbon and nitrogen. Adequate nutrition means sufficient quantities of: chemical building blocks (something needed by an organism to build up tissues, somethings that must be obtained by environment that organism cannot synthesize) Including essential nutrients (i. e. vitamins from our foods: water, fuel for energy-demanding functions. ), proteins and fats molecules that can be broken down for energy: applies to both plants and animals. Plants can make their own energy; animals must obtain their energy from their food. Biological systems typically demonstrate a pattern in their response to change: concentration of nutrients vs. growth of yield.
