Do your cells use food to directly power their various functions? explain your answer (3 points)
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No, your cells does not use food to directly to power  their various functions.

Explanation:

The food that we eat is the fuel to our body. But this food has to converted into energy. This conversion of food  into energy is carried out by mitochondria through a process called Cellular respiration. The food we consume is first broken down into smaller particles.the glucose in the food we eat undergoes several chemical reaction to produce ATP (adenosine triphosphate).This ATP is the form of chemical energy that is utilised by the cell for performing various actions walking , running etc.

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after a the power stroke, adp is released, but the cross-bridge formed is still in place. atp then binds to myosin, moving the myosin to its high-energy state, releasing the myosin head from the actin active site.