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Energy Processing

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Energy processing is the property by which every organism captures or consumes energy to fuel its metabolic activity.

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A plant converts sunlight into chemical energy stored in sugar; an animal instead consumes that stored energy by eating.

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Both capturing energy from sunlight and consuming it from food count as energy processing — the source differs, not the requirement.