Microbe metabolism: For the smallest organisms, size determines how microbes spend energy
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 05:30
in Biology & Nature
Every living organism balances a budget of sorts by allocating energy to various parts of its body to fuel essential life processes. Throughout its lifetime, an organism may rebalance this budget to spend more energy on certain processes over others. How an organism spends its energy determines, in large part, its ability to survive in the world, and researchers who study bioenergetics are modeling energy use in organisms to understand how populations grow and evolve.