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Metabolism is the balance between building up and breaking down substances in it's cells.

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Q: What is metabolism in living things?
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Do any living things have metabolism?

Yes.


What is required by all living things?

Living things must be able to acquire nutrients and energy. This also means that living things must have a metabolism.


Study the chemical composition of living things and metabolism?

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What is the name of the process that living things use to get energy from food?

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What is the name of the slow process which by living creatures change?

Metabolism is the slow process of by which living things change. If metabolism stops, everything will die off.


Definition of living things?

As science defines it, to be living, a thing must be capable of growth, reproduction and metabolism.


What life processes do all living things carry out?

Metabolism, reproduction, and adaptation.


How do living things and non-living things differ in organization?

living things organize in a dirrect passion while non-living things do it reverse


What is the intake and use of food by living things?

The intake and use of food by living things is called metabolism. The speed of metabolism, the metabolic rate, influences how much food an organism will require, and also affects how it is able to obtain that food.


What do living things get from this repiration?

respiration is a very useful process that helps in metabolism of cells


Do all living things metabolize?

Yes. Metabolism is the sum total all chemical processes necessary to maintain life. From the tiniest microorganism to the largest animal, the great blue whale, all cells of living things undergo metabolism.


Chemical reactions in all living things?

Yes. Everything you do is caused by a series of complex chemical reactions. Turning the food you eat into energy you can you to run or do anything else for example.