Consume Energy:
Spotlight Search for Scientist: Fernando R. Elorriaga-Verplancken
Fernando is a researcher at Departamento de Pesquerías y Biología Marina. He writes a lot of articles about Seals and their daily life.
Consuming energy is called ATP and an example of that is cellular respiration. Energy is commonly produced when you consume food and get a lot of rest.
Maintaining Homeostasis
Maintaining homeostasis is when you are able to maintain stable conditions. An example would be when humans get the the flu it is the cells in your body fighting back against bacteria entering in your body.
Spotlight Search for Scientist: Coco Ballantyne
Coco Ballantyne is a New York–based journalist and science writer with a special interest in psychology. She has also written for Discover magazine and Nature Medicine. Coco worked as a reporter for Scientific American online, covering the health, medicine, and neuroscience beats. Coco earned an MS from Columbia University School of Journalism, where she also received a Horgan Prize for Exceeding in Critical Science Writing. She was also a math teacher at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, California. And she was a Human Biology course associate at Stanford University, where she earned a BA in human biology.
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