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Broadly speaking, metabolism deals with transformations of substances and transformations of energy. How usable energy is derived from nutrients and how it is used to drive metabolic processes are questions fundamental to understanding the workings of metabolism.
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Stenesh, J. (1998). Bioenergetics. In: Biochemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9427-4_9
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