BIL 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Catabolism, Emergence, Chemical Energy

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Cellular respiration is a catabolic pathway, in which the sugar glucose and other organic fuels are broken down in the presence of oxygen to carbon dioxide and water (pathways can have more than one starting molecule and/or product) Moving objects can perform work by imparting motion to other matter: thermal energy is kinetic energy associated with the random movement of atoms or molecules. Thermal energy in transfer from one object to another is called heat: potential energy is energy that matter possesses because of its location or structure. Energy can be transferred and transformed, but it cannot be created or destroyed (principle of conservation of energy: 2nd law of thermodynamics: every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe. Entropy is a measure of disorder, or randomness. Although order can increase locally, there is an unstoppable trend toward randomization of the universe in whole.

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