Bioenergetics/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Bioenergetics.

The science that investigates and describes the mechanisms whereby living systems capture energy from an external source, convert it into forms of energy that enable them perform the work required to drive the physico-chemical processes that sustain their viability, and the steps they take to perform that work.