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What is it called when living things get their food by breaking down dead matter into simpler chemicals?
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catabolism
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What is the breaking down of compounds into simpler substances called?
The process of breaking a complex substance down into smaller components is called catabolism. Catabolism is the breaking down in living organisms or more complex substances into smaller ones.
Chemicals from non-living sources that kill bacteria are called?
antiseptics
Breakdown of complex substances in living things?
The breakdown (usually in living systems) from complex substances to simpler substances is called catalysis. In terms of thermodynamics, the breakdown from more ordered (often more complex) states to more disordered (often simpler) states is called entropy.
The internal process of building up amd breaking down materials in living creatures is called?
anabolism - breaking catabolism - building
What food has to be to get into the blood?
Digestion, which is the process of making food absorbable by dissolving it and breaking it down into simpler chemical compounds that occurs in the living body chiefly through the action of enzymes secreted into the alimentary canal
Are chemicals living things?
Chemicals are not livings things.
Breaks down organic matter into simpler compounds?
Provides proteins for plants
44 62 Parasitic strains of E. coli may produce poisonous chemicals that attack living tissue and cause disease in humans These chemicals are called?
Viruses
What is a living chemicals?
66
Do crickets have chemicals?
Yes, all living things contain chemicals.
Living things that can directly convert energy from the sun or use environmental chemicals to make food energy are called?
plants
What Living things that can directly convert energy from the sun or use environmental chemicals to make food energy?
they are called autotrophs
