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METABOLISM
WHAT IS METABOLISM?
Take 5 minutes with your shoulder partner and discuss what you
think Metabolism is.
CRASH COURSE:
METABOLISM
WHAT IS METABOLISM?
Ie: some organisms, like the extremophiles living in sulfur pools in Yellowstone
National Park, utilize Hydrogen Sulfide for their metabolism, a chemical that
would be poisonous to us.
Metabolic rates will also differ between organism to organism, even individuals to
individuals within a species.