Relate the laws of thermodynamics to living organisms.

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Hey everyone, Let's take a look at this question together. The first law of thermodynamics states that heat can be transferred and transformed but cannot be created or destroyed. However, as energy is being passed on from producers to consumers. Not all of it is passed on to the next trophic level because some of it escapes from the body in the form of heat. During what we know from what we've learned about trophic levels. We know that we have our producers and we have our consumers. And so in this process of energy being transferred from producers to the consumers here we have a loss of energy. So we have that loss of energy because not all of the energy that the producers have is transferred to the consumers because some of it is lost in the form of heat which we know from the question that some of it escapes from the body in the form of heat. And so that is because of the process of converting glucose to A. T. P. And we all know that this process of converting glucose to A. T. P. Is called cellular respiration. Answer Choice B. The correct answer. Because we know that when we're converting from glucose to A. T. P. We have a loss of energy in the form of heat because heat is released and that happens during cellular respiration. And we also know that cellular respiration is a mix of oxidation and reduction reactions. So A is incorrect. We know that the metabolic process is breaking down food to produce energy. So that is also incorrect. And we know that photosynthesis is also incorrect because it's making oxygen and energy by using the sun's solar energy. So answer choice B is the correct answer. Hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and goodbye.

Relate the laws of thermodynamics to living organisms.

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