2.2 Where Does All the Energy Go?
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Our body extracts energy from food. Where do you think all this energy goes? What processes do you think consume the most energy?
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June 22, 2021 at 10:44 am
it is consumed to maintain homeostasis, most likely the brain, digestive tract, and other regulatory processes
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June 24, 2021 at 4:47 pm
I guess most of the energy goes into maintaining our low entropy (organized) configuration through metabolic processes. For example, the function of the neurons depends on a sodium pump which requires energy; same can be said about muscle activity and pretty much every process in the body (the brain consumes a lot of energy as well).
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July 21, 2021 at 8:05 pm
The energy we get from food goes into the cells. Synthesis consumes energy.
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May 1, 2022 at 6:19 pm
it is used to support functionality and maintain homeostasis. Life maintenance and homeostasis require significant amounts of energy even in the absence of activity.
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May 12, 2022 at 11:23 am
I think the energy goes to the overall functioning of the body.
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August 13, 2022 at 5:59 pm
1)as you said, living things can utilize energy to maintain its state as a living thing in biology its called metabolism where we build and destroy complex chemical compounds to achieve balance and control over what makes it alive.
2)building a compound usually needs more energy than destroying an other.
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August 13, 2022 at 8:02 pm
The energy all contributes to facilitation of biochemical processes, and anabolic processes consume the most energy.
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September 14, 2022 at 5:31 am
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,
The energy of foods goes to digestion. It drains us.
Metabolics consume energy.
When free of food in fasting, research is often not there yet.
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February 28, 2023 at 7:54 am
energy goes to biochemical reactions especially anabolic reactions
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