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Metabolism Fundamentals
for the Beginning Beginner

When you work, you earn money, that can then be spent to better yourself.

When a bacterium eats, it makes ATP, that can be then used to better itself (grow).

If for some reason your work load is lessened, you earn less money, and your finances get tighter. If your work is lessened even more, you earn too little money to support yourself and you go into a panic looking for other jobs to do to bring in more money for better living.

If for some reason a bacterium is partially starved of food, it makes less ATP, and living gets tight and growth slows down to a slower rate. If the food supply is cut greatly, the bacterium panics and begins to look for other things to eat in order to make more ATP for better living.

If you are doing well, and making money you are happy. But if you suddenly have some disaster expenses that drain your bank account, you start scrambling to find additional ways to make money. This disaster is a stress.

If a bacterium has plenty of food, but some other emergency comes along that requires ATP to cope with that emergency, the bacterium begins scrambling to find ways to make more ATP. This emergency is a stress.

To you, money is power. It can buy services and supplies to keep you going.

To the bacterium, ATP is power. It is used in the manufacture and maintenance of all of its anatomical parts. ATP is biology's energy compound.

Economics is how you deal with living in a financial world.

Biochemistry governs how living things metabolize and grow and repair.