Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Energy in Biology ~ NGSS Link LS1.C-M.2

Within individual organisms, food moves through a series of chemical reactions in which it is broken down and rearranged to form new molecules, to support growth, or to release energy.

Items associated with this NGSS statement in this project (THSB) and key idea (Plants use sugar molecules to make …)
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ME022001	Matter is not created when living organisms grow. The matter added to their bodies comes from atoms that were outside the organism.
ME064001	Both plant growth and animal growth involve chemical reactions because both use chemical reactions to build larger molecules that become part of their bodies.

Items associated with this NGSS statement in this project (THSB) and other key ideas
ME014003	Aside from water, animal body structures are made up mostly of protein molecules.
ME020002	When a wolf hunts and eats a deer, some of the deer meat goes through chemical reactions in the wolf’s digestive system and then becomes part of the wolf’s body.
ME017003	When a baby goose grows into an adult goose, the additional mass comes from the atoms that make up the food the baby goose eats.
ME049002	When a sea star regrows lost arms, most of the additional mass comes from atoms that made up the food the sea star ate.
ME063001	Animals build their body structures by digesting proteins in their food to amino acids and using the amino acids to build their body proteins.
ME021003	When a student eats a chicken sandwich, some of the proteins from the chicken meat go through chemical reactions to make new proteins that become part of the student’s body.