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Name a process that requires energy when the body is fully at rest.
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Energy is used when metabolizing nutrient molecules even when at rest
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All organisms respire in order to release energy to fuel their living processes. The respiration can be aerobic, which uses glucose and oxygen, or anaerobic which uses only glucose. Respiration must happen all of the time so that the organism can survive.

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