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Introduction to Bioenergetics
Bioenergetics
• The study of energy in living systems and the
organisms that utilize them. In other words
the study of transformation of energy in living
organism. This is the goal of bioenergetics is to
describe how living organisms acquire and
transform energy in order to perform
biological activity or work. The study of
metabolic pathway is thus essential to
bioenergetics.
• There are two types of energy =
• 1.kinetic energy
• 2.potential energy
Kinetic energy