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Why do living things use enzymes instead of heat as a source of activation energy?

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All living things need to eat and some do/do not use energy
animals such as pigs spider or man cannot do this since they are not a plant and cannot change heat into energy
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Living things use enzymes instead of a heat source because they speed up chemical reactions as well as the metabolism in those living.Adding sufficient heat would harm or kill a living thing, also enzymes are far more efficient. A single enzyme can often carry out thousands of reactions per second. Living organisms use enzymes for activation energy because they speed up chemical reactions.

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