NGSS · Life Science · Grades 6–8 (Middle School)

MS-LS1-7 Cellular Respiration & Food Molecules

Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.

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