ENERGY AND LIFE
BIOLOGY - Energy and Life
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- Created on: 17-02-13 16:16
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- ENERGY AND LIFE
- Energy is the ability to do work
- Renewable Energy
- Renewable energy is natural energy which does not have a limited supply. Renewable energy can be used again and again, and will never run out.
- Non-Renewable Energy
- Renewable energy is natural energy which does not have a limited supply. Renewable energy can be used again and again, and will never run out.
- Renewable Energy
- Organisms
- Autotrophs
- Organishms that make their own food ; e.g Plants
- Plants photosynthesize by absorbing lught energy from the sun and combine it with water and carbon dioxide and produces sugar and oxygen. Humans exhale carbon dioxide, which plants use to form the oxygen that we breath.
- Organishms that make their own food ; e.g Plants
- Heterotrophs
- Organisms that depend on other organisms for food ; e.g Humans, Animals
- Heterotrophs do this by consuming other organisms.
- Organisms that depend on other organisms for food ; e.g Humans, Animals
- Autotrophs
- ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) is an adenosine molecule with 3 phosphates attached at the end.
- When a phosphate is detached from ATP energy is freed and used for whatever it is needed for, and the ATP becomes ADP (Adenosine 2 phosphate).
- ATP is the energy molecule of a cell.
- Energy is the ability to do work
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