Inquiry Into Life (16th Edition)
16th Edition
ISBN: 9781260231700
Author: Sylvia S. Mader, Michael Windelspecht
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 6, Problem 1A
The fact that energy transformations increase the amount of entropy is the basis of watch of the following?
a. cell theory
b. second law of
c. first law of thermodynamics
d.
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