The existence of life is dependents on bioenergetics to overcome the restrictions of thermodynamics. What does the term bioenergetics mean? Provide one well-structured example of how bioenergetics provides the necessary conditions required for life to exist given the restrictions of thermodynamics.

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Q: Why heat is not an effective means of driving unfavorable processes in biological systems?

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Q: What is kinetic energy? Name some properties and why it is biologically important in our life.

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Q: What must be true for a process where ΔG> 0?

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