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EXPLAIN how mass and energy are conserved when food is digested?

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  1. u p**p, and use that energy to apply work on other things.


  2. as eistein's formula said E= mCsquared....matter is just energy that is changed form....the law of conservation of mass and energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed...so say you eat an apple....you digest some of it and some of it excreted, however the matter that is digested is not destroyed the building blocks, ie fats, amino acids, and  monosaccharides are used in your cells to build proteins or for other cellular reactions...some of the digested components are put through your cellular energy cycles (glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain), the matter is not destroyed it is just converted to energy...if you were to measure the mass of the apple, and then measure the energy generated by your cells and the amount excreted the amounts would be equal...

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