help plss! What is metabolism? Provide a real-life example of metabolism to support your description.

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The whole range of biochemical processes that occur within a living organism. An example is self feeders like algae and green plants use the energy of sunlight to assemble inorganic precursors, chiefly carbon dioxide and water, into the array of organic macromolecules of which they are made. This process is photosynthesis.

Bumek [7]2 years ago

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The process involving a set of chemical reactions that modifies a molecule into another to essentially maintain the living state of a cell or an organism.
For example: metabolic reaction is the one that takes place when a person eats a spoonful of sugar.

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