A set of chemical reactions that occur in living organisms to maintain life
Background Information
- Two Components - catabolism (breaking down) and anabolism (constructing components)
- allows growth, reproduction, maintenance of structure, respond to environment
- chemical reactions of metabolism organised into metabolic pathways
- one chemical changed into another through enzymes
- most structure (plants, animals and microbes) made of three classes of molecule - amino acids, carbohydrates and lipids
Having done this brief background research, I dicovered that the bodies metabolism didn't relate to my concept as well as I would have liked with no real application to the movement around the body. It is still interesting to understand these systems and their ability to maintain life within an organism. It will still be considered for future biomimicry development but first a wider view of the human body will be taken to attempt to find a better biomimicry exemplar.
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