The Australian environmental protection agency defines bioremediation as a "process using microorganisms to degrade and detoxify organic substances to harmless compounds, such as carbon dioxide and water, in a confined and controlled environment." Bioremediation is being used to clean up oil spills, pesticide-contaminated estuaries, contaminated groundwater, and many other cases of pollution.Which statement would be true of bioremediations?
A) The products of a bioremediation process have very different properties than the reactants do.
B) Bioremediations do not obey the law of conservation of matter.
C) The law of conservation of energy does not apply to bioremediations.
D) In bioremediations, chemical bonds are conserved as reactants are converted to products.
E) Bioremediations involve no change in energy.
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