Life Requires Free Energy

012 - Life Requires Free Energy

Paul Andersen describes how free energy is used by organisms to grow, maintain order, and reproduce. A brief discussion of the first and second law of thermodynamics is also included. Disruptions in the amount of free energy can cause death and disruptions to popultaions, communities, and ecosystems.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• free energy
• life
• thermodynamics
• evolution
• biology
• ap biology
• educational
• tutorial
• metabolism
• energy pyramid

[BelleFilleSansMerci]

@squiigle i do!

[evelutionofone]

thank you! I have to finish this course to move on and you helped so! thank you

[oEmilyThePenguino]

@SEVENFLORES I think your cap lock button is broken ._.

[squiigle]

Awesome video, but who leaves potatoes in their closets...?

[Anestheticfun]

Great job at explaining glycolysis, your videos are greatly appreciated by my whole class.

[qabala]

I think your definition of the 2nd law is incomplete. To my understanding, the entropy in a closed system only increases until it reaches a state of equilibrium.

Am I wrong?

[487livespot]

im not taking biology...frankly i came no where close to biology i think i got to earth science. so with saying that i learn a lot from watchin ur videos.

[9164523]

Not much feeling is in this video. You looked very bored when making this video.

[SEVENFLORES]

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE QUALITY? :( I AM VERY SAD AND DISSAPOINTED I AM GOING TO UNSUBSCRIBE... JUST KIDDING THANKS FOR THE VIDEO!!!!! LIKE ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!