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Your body gets the energy it needs from food through a process called metabolism. [http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/general/body_basics/metabolism.html] | Your body gets the energy it needs from food through a process called metabolism. [http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/general/body_basics/metabolism.html] | ||
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| + | :The reason for this being in the wrong topic is that biochemical metabolism is about certain types or molecules being used in metabolic processes. This would fit better in digestion where the digestive track breaks food down to finer particles that can be further broken down for use in cellular metabolism. In other words it would be like inserting how the nervous system works in an article about cellular signaling.--[[User:Able806|Able806]] 14:26, 17 April 2008 (EDT) | ||
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Metabolism is the overall process through which living systems acquire and utilize the free energy they need to carry out their various functions. They do so by coupling the exergonic reactions, or spontaneous reactions, of nutrient oxidation to the endergonic processes, or nonspontaneous processes that require the use of free energy, required to maintain the living state such as the performance of mechanical work, the active transport of molecules against concentration gradients, and the biosynthesis of complex molecules.
Glycolysis
Glycogen metabolism
Citric acid cycle
Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation
Lipid metabolism
Amino acid metabolism
Energy metabolism
Nucleotide metabolism
Energy from food
Your body gets the energy it needs from food through a process called metabolism. [1]
- The reason for this being in the wrong topic is that biochemical metabolism is about certain types or molecules being used in metabolic processes. This would fit better in digestion where the digestive track breaks food down to finer particles that can be further broken down for use in cellular metabolism. In other words it would be like inserting how the nervous system works in an article about cellular signaling.--Able806 14:26, 17 April 2008 (EDT)