How do microorganisms metabolize fats and proteins for energy?
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Two ways.  Proteins can be converted to pyruvate by a process called Gluconeogensis.  However, fats can be shuttle directly into the mitochondria of a eukaryotic cell and be hydrolyzed into Acetyl CoA to be used in the citric acid cycle and the Electron Transport Chain.  Hope this helps.  An overview is below:
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The energy that carnivores obtain from their diet is the chemical energy of molecules in the food.  As they metabolize (oxidize) food molecules, energy is released which is trapped and temporarily stored in the form of ATP molecules.\n\nPlants, on the other hand, absorb light.  The chlorophyll and other pigment molecules in the chloroplasts absorb light, and through the processes in chloroplasts, they are able to use that light energy to produce ATP and to produce electrons that are then available for use by the cell.
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I need microorganisms to decompose ur gapless sentence ;-)\n\nMicrobes can metabolize wide range of chemicals. So they can be used for decomposition.
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The main mechanism of energy production in the body is through the formation and oxidation of adenosine triphosphate, ATP.  Cells convert carbohydrates (which we eat) into ATP, and then oxidize the molecules later to access the energy in their chemical bonds.
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TRUE\nFirst of all all living cells do not produce energy from glucose only,but also from fats and proteins(during starvation).\nAnd then,most of the energy released is lost as heat energy.The remaining energy is stored as ATP( which is like a 'battery').Just as a battery can be 'plugged on' to different objects to produce light(torch),sound(tape recorder),etc so also the ATP can also be used as and when required to provide energy for locomotion,to produce light(glow worm),electricity(ray fish) etc.
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1. Energy production and storage\n2. Structure.\n3. Supply carbon for synthesis\n4. Cell identification.
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Many archaea colonize extreme environments.\nThey include hyperthermophiles, sulfur-metabolizing thermo-\nphiles, extreme halophiles and methanogens. Because extrem-\nophilic microorganisms have unusual properties, they are a\npotentially valuable resource in the development of novel bio-\ntechnological processes. Despite extensive research, however,\nthere are few existing industrial applications of either archaeal\nbiomass or archaeal enzymes. \nCultivation methods, recent achievements in genomics, which are of key importance for the devel-\nopment of new biotechnological tools, and the application of\nwild-type biomasses, engineered microorganisms, enzymes\nand specific metabolites in particular bioprocesses of indus-\ntrial interest.\n\nA major limitation to the industrial application of archaeal en-\nzymes and metabolites is the low productivity of the fermenta-\ntion processes as a result of low growth rates and low biomass\nyields. To overcome these limitations, attention has been fo-\ncused on studying the physiology of archaea of biotechnological \ninterest and on designing bioreactors and bioprocesses that\nincrease productivity. Because of the unconventional environ-\nmental conditions needed for the cultivation of extremophiles,\ncontamination problems are minimal. Therefore, a continuous\nculture approach has been widely adopted.\n\nhttp://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ZMgRQbu0KPEJ:www.biotechinstitute.org/resources/pdf/yw14_2.pdf+applications+of+archaea+in+biotech&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a  for more info
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The process in which people take in nutrients and use them to nourish their body, grow, and produce energy.
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Producers, which are usually plants and other photosynthetic organisms such as some types of bacteria, are consumed by primary consumers, so the energy enters the system of the primary consumer (like a rabbit, for example) and some of the energy is used up to power the animal's system (metabolism, etc). Then secondary consumers (picture a fox) eat the primary consumer, and with it the remaining energy that was not used up by that primary consumer. Then tertiary consumers... etc. etc. The pattern continues.
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All cells have membrane-spanning proteins that serve as channels.  They can move materials across the cell membrane, either in or out, by passive diffusion, active transport (ie ATP-consuming energy-burning motors that sort materials against a chemical gradient) or facilitated transport (ie coupled transport systems where the movement of one chemical down a chemical gradient is coupled with the transport of another chemical up a gradient).  Some combination of these methods is used to transport wastes from the bacterial cell.\n\nIn eukaryotic cells (ie not bacteria, but possibly including single-celled protists and fungi) there can also be excretion of materials by the means of small vessicles made of the same lipid bilayer that the membrane is made of.  When these vessicles fuse to the cell membrane, the contents spill out, and the vessicle lipids become part of the cell membrane.
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biomass, bugs & water - when biological materials are mixed with microbes and water, the microbes will "eat" the biological material and release bio-gas.  If the microbes are anaerobic, you must prevent air from getting into the system.  If they are aerobic microbes, you may need to aerate the system.
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That is such a huge question, no wonder everyone avoided it... Ultimately all energy comes from metabolism and you can find out more about this in wikipedia but, be warned, there is a lot of information there.\n\nBut in a nutshell sugars and fats are proken down in the body to form ATP, and that drives all of the energy requiring reactions in your body.
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The majority of fatty acids are metabolized using beta-oxidation. Essentially, a series of four enzymes oxidize the beta-carbon, shorting the fatty acid chain by two carbons. The electrons lost are transferred to electron carriers, and a molecule of acetyl-CoA is produced.\n\nOne round of beta-oxidation produces 1 QH2, 1 NADH, and 1 acetyl-CoA molecule. The citric acid cycle is used to convert the molecule of acetyl-CoA into 3 NADH, 1 QH2, and 1 GTP. Through oxidative phosphorylation:\n\n2 QH2 --> 4 ATP (2 per QH2)\n4 NADH --> 12 ATP (3 per NADH)\n1 GTP --> 1 ATP\n\nEach round of beta-oxidation shortens the fatty acid chain by two carbons and produces 17 ATP. Therefore, one molecule of palmitoleic acid, which contains 16 carbons, could undergo beta-oxidation 7 times and produce 131 molecules of ATP!\n\nPS The answer directly below mine is for one molecule of glucose... Not what you want. Lipids don't go through glycolysis. Acetyl-CoA also cannot enter gluconeogenesis in humans either because we lack the enzyme needed to enter the glyoxylate cycle.
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What has always been recommended to me was a meal low in fats and oils and high in complex carbohydrates, with plenty of water or Gatorade.  The reasoning was that they would provide energy faster than protein, which would usually be consumed in higher quantities during building phases.  Hydration is another very important thing, avoid caffeine, alcohol, and sodas.
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The energy comes from all the food they eat.  Gloucose is a yummy one.  :)
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The metabolism of most living things involves creating energy or ATP from the catabolism of carbohydrates, primarily monosaccharides.   The primary source of carbohydrates in food comes from the plant kingdom.  Plants use the sun's energy to convert CO2 and H2O into carbohydrates.  So, indirectly the majority of energy produced by all living things originates from the energy of the sun.
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That question would require an essay to answer fully.\n\nSome protists, such as kelp, are get energy by photosynthesis.\n\nSome protists, such as Amoeba, get energy by endocytosis.\n\nSome protists, such as Entomoeba, gete energy by direst absorption.\n\nAnd so on and so forth. There are hundreds of thousands of species of protists and they use every conceivable method of obtaining energy.