You are at the county fair stuffing your face with anything deep fried: snickers, oreos, butter! As the liver converts the glycerol and fatty acids into triglycerides energy is ________ .
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Attempt 1: released
Attempt 2: required
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You are having a snack of potato chips while completing your biology homework. The potato chips are broken down and digested in your gastrointestinal tract into glucose molecules. The glucose is then absorbed into your bloodstream and heads for your liver where your liver produces glycogen from the glucose molecules. Which of the following illustrates a catabolic reaction?
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Attempt 1
: Consumption of potato chips
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00m:19s
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Which of the following would represent what happens in a catabolic reaction?
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Attempt 1: Creating a house of cards
Attempt 2: Baking a cake
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00m:11s
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Which of the following would represent what happens in an anabolic reaction?
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Attempt 1: Creating a tower of blocks with your little brother
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00m:09s
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Consider the following biological process: Sunlight is trapped by plants. Plants use the solar energy to produce sugars. Sugars are consumed by other organisms. The sugars are used to produce ATP. Chemical energy is represented by the _________.
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Attempt 1: ATP and sugars
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00m:12s
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Where does the carbon dioxide that plants use to produce sugars come from?
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Attempt 1: Carbon dioxide is produced as sugars are metabolized by consumers.
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00m:12s
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The sum total of all chemical reactions that occur in the body is known as _________.
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Attempt 1: metabolism
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00m:08s
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Energy from the sun is transferred to plants and used in the production of ___________.
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Attempt 1: lipids
Attempt 2: proteins
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00m:30s
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Which of the following correctly depicts energy transfers on Earth?
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Attempt 1: decomposers,solar energy, consumers
Attempt 2: decomposers, consumers, producers
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00m:29s
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Consider the following biological process: Sunlight is trapped by plants. Plants use the solar energy to produce sugars. Sugars are consumed by other organisms. The sugars are used to produce ATP. The sunlight represents _______ energy.