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The Second Law of Thermodynamics States That All Energy Transformations

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The second law of thermodynamics states that all energy transformations result in more disordered energy. How do living organisms, which depend on the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy to fuel their activities, continue to live?


A) They must constantly take in chemical potential energy for fuel and excrete waste.
B) Living things do not obey the laws of thermodynamics.
C) They must constantly take in chemical potential energy for fuel.
D) They excrete the disordered molecules and lose the disordered energy as heat.
E) They take the disordered molecules and heat energy and use them to create new fuel.

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