Effect Of Metabolism On Metabolism

Metabolism is a combination of all chemical reactions that take place inside living things and are due to the use of energy cells have obtained from outside sources such as photosynthesis for plants. Plants are also known as autotrophs because of that ability to use photosynthesis to obtain energy while heterotrophs, such as mammals, get energy from nutrients produced by the autotrophs. Metabolism, like enzymes, is affected by temperature and when an organism and its environment are the same temperature, any change can produce a dramatic effect. The problem with metabolism is that less than half of the energy they extract from various sources of energy such as carbohydrates is able to be used. The remaining energy is lost as heat and is quickly absorbed into the environment. This idea applies mostly to cold-blooded organisms called poikilotherms that live in water because the water determines their body temperature. An increase in temperature causes an increase in metabolic rate and the

The next highest amount of carbon dioxide was with the crayfish and plant together but it wasn’t much higher than the organisms by themselves. The size of the crayfish is a variable which is why it is difficult to assume whether an organism by itself or an organism and a plant together will produce more carbon dioxide. The bigger the crayfish the lower the metabolic rate. If there were all identical crayfish in the flasks then one could assume that the plant and the crayfish together would produce more carbon dioxide because there’s two things producing it instead of just one. In the beakers containing only plants, the one exposed to the light produced more carbon dioxide than the one in the dark because the one in the dark wasn’t able to