0
What is the chemical reaction that releases energy in the human body?
Wiki User
∙ 7y ago
It is called cellular respiration (oxidation of carbohydrates), and the process is known as metabolism.
Wiki User
∙ 7y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What controls the rate of chemical reaction in human body?
In the human body enzymes control the rates of chemical reactions. Enzymes speed up reactions by lowering the activation energy, or the amount of energy required for the reaction to occur.
What if your body converts chemical energy to all of the following EXCEPT?
Nuclear energy is the only energy that the human body does not produce.
What occurs during a chemical reaction?
the element
What happens to energy when matter undergoes a chemical change or a physical change?
A tiny bit of the sun's energy falls onto earth. On earth some of the solar energy is changed by photosynthesis into chemical energy stored in the carbohydrate molecules in plant cells.A human eats a plant. Or a human eats an animal that ate a plant. The chemical energy stored in the plant (or animal) cells is moved into the cells of the human's body. All of the body processes, like digestion, pumping blood, breathing, are powered by cells converting the stored chemical energy into work and heat, in a process called respiration. Respiration takes place in every cell in your body.Inside the muscle cells of the human (or any animal), the chemical energy is transformed (changed) into mechanical work and heat. The muscle contracts, the legs push, and the body leaps into the air. Some of the chemical energy has now been changed into the kinetic energy of a body flying up into the air. The rest of the original chemical energy has been used to raise the temperature of your jumping body. If you keep jumping for long you'll get pretty hot.During a change, energy is either released or absorbed
What happens to energy when matter undergoes a physical change?
A tiny bit of the sun's energy falls onto earth. On earth some of the solar energy is changed by photosynthesis into chemical energy stored in the carbohydrate molecules in plant cells.A human eats a plant. Or a human eats an animal that ate a plant. The chemical energy stored in the plant (or animal) cells is moved into the cells of the human's body. All of the body processes, like digestion, pumping blood, breathing, are powered by cells converting the stored chemical energy into work and heat, in a process called respiration. Respiration takes place in every cell in your body.Inside the muscle cells of the human (or any animal), the chemical energy is transformed (changed) into mechanical work and heat. The muscle contracts, the legs push, and the body leaps into the air. Some of the chemical energy has now been changed into the kinetic energy of a body flying up into the air. The rest of the original chemical energy has been used to raise the temperature of your jumping body. If you keep jumping for long you'll get pretty hot.During a change, energy is either released or absorbed
Oxygen in the blood why?
The chemical energy needed to drive all the chemical processes of the human body is obtained by an oxidation reaction that requires oxygen.
What is the energy in a human body?
Energy is stored as chemical energy in human body. It is consumed when required.
What controls the rate of chemical reaction in human body?
In the human body enzymes control the rates of chemical reactions. Enzymes speed up reactions by lowering the activation energy, or the amount of energy required for the reaction to occur.
What type of energy does food provide the human body?
The human body converts food energy into work, thermal energy or chemical energy that is stored in fatty tissue.
Human work converts what energy to mechanical energy?
the answer is chemical energy
What is the definition for human energy?
Is a chemical energy that we produce when we eat
What form of energy is stored in human muscles?
Chemical Energy.
Human work converts what kind of energy to mechanical energy?
chemical
What are the two types of metabolism in the human body?
Exergonic reaction: This type of reaction releases more energy than puts in, and it occurs spontaneously.Endergoic reaction: Absorbs free energy from the surroundings. This type of reaction stores free energy in the bonds of molecules.
How does an enzyme affect human life?
Enzymes facilitate chemical reactions. Many are catalysts that decrease the amount of energy required for or increase the rate of chemical reactions to take place. Many enzymes work by bringing the substrates of a chemical reaction into close proximity and in favorable orientation. They may also allow the chemical reaction to use chemically stored energy (ex. ATP, GTP etc) to power the reaction. Without these enzymes, some of the reactions would be extremely slow or require excessive temperatures to complete.
Why are enzymes so important to human beings?
Enzymes catalyze the chemical reactions in humans by lowering the activation energy of the reaction. If enzymes weren't present, the activation energy would be too high and the reaction would therefore be too slow, so the organism would not be able to live.
Is burning of gasoline in the car a chemical change?
Gasoline burning is an oxidation reaction, a reaction with oxygen.So, burning is a chemical change. And fire was the most important discovery of human beings.
