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The Role of ________________ Is to Conserve Energy So That

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The role of ________________ is to conserve energy so that an organism can attend to other more important stimuli, whereas _________________ helps increase the responsiveness of an organism to potentially dangerous stimuli.


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Oxidation

A chemical reaction in which a substance loses electrons, often associated with the gain of oxygen or loss of hydrogen, crucial in energy production and metabolic processes.

Electrons

Subatomic particles with a negative charge that circle around an atom's nucleus.

Dehydration

The loss or removal of water from something, commonly referring to the state in which an organism's body loses more fluids than it takes in.

Allosteric Regulation

Control of an enzyme’s activity by a regulatory molecule that binds outside the active site.

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