Biology: How Life Works
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Author: James Morris, Daniel Hartl, Andrew Knoll, Melissa Michael, Robert Lue, Andrew Berry, Andrew Biewener, Brian Farrell, N. Michele Holbrook
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
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About 10 million species functions in the transfer of energy and cycling of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, nitrogen molecules through the food web. They are algae, plants, as well as bacteria. These organisms are able to conduct respiration as well as photosynthesis.

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Animals, plants as well as microbes obtain necessary compounds like carbon, energy, and organic compounds from the photosynthetic organisms. Microbes, amoebas, and humans might use the same biochemical pathway for respiration but differ in the kind of food which they eat. Fungi, as well as bacteria, absorb molecules to form the environment. Most of the eukaryotic organisms are predators that capture and ingest cells.

Photosynthetic bacteria and green plants are some of the photoautotrophs. Photosynthetic organisms possess structural as well as physiological adaptations to survive in their environments across the globe or diversified environment. Consumers survive through specialized adaptations such as perception, behavior and limb specialization to obtain their food.

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