energy: the ability to do work

Metabolism is used to describe all anabolic and catabolic reactions in living organisms

• Anabolism
• Catabolism

• in living organisms
• kinetic energy
• potential energy

first law of thermodynamics

• what is it?
• energy and chemical bonds
• energy changes during a chemical reaction
• bond energy

second law of thermodynamics

• what is it?
• types of thermodynamic systems
• spontaneous changes
• gibbs free energy
• coupled reactions

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