The answer is the option d. metabolism.
Metabolism is the set of the chemical reactions that happens in the organism to transform nutrients (food) in energy and the products that conform the cells and all the constituents of the body.
<u>Answer:</u> The chemical equation is written below.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Transmutation is defined as the process in which one chemical isotope gets converted to another chemical isotope. The number of protons or neutrons in the isotope gets changed.
The chemical equation for the reaction of curium-242 nucleus with alpha particle (helium nucleus) follows:

The product formed in the nuclear reaction are californium-245 nucleus and a neutron particle.