Plants and Animals Are Mutually Dependent on Each Other

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Essay

Plants and animals are mutually dependent on each other.Explain the energy-producing metabolic processes used by plants and animals,and name the products that result.Describe how animals benefit from the products of plant metabolism and how plants benefit from the products of animal metabolism.

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Definitions:

Utility Function

A mathematical representation of a consumer's preference system, ranking different bundles of goods and services by their levels of satisfaction.

Indifference Curve

A graph that represents different bundles of goods among which a consumer is indifferent, showing levels of consumption where the consumer has no preference for one combination over another.

Apples And Bananas

Commonly used examples in economics to represent two different goods in various economic models and theories.

Utility Function

A mathematical representation of how a set of goods and services are ranked according to their utility, or satisfaction, to the consumer.