Editing Bioenergetics (section)

==Additional information==
* During energy transformations in living systems, '''order and organization''' must be compensated by releasing energy which will increase '''entropy''' of the surrounding.
* Organisms are '''open systems''' that exchange materials and energy with the environment. They are never at equilibrium with the surrounding.
* Energy is spent to create and maintain order in the cells, and surplus energy and other simpler by-products are released to create '''disorder''' such that there is an increase in entropy of the surrounding.
* In a reversible process, entropy remains constant where as in an irreversible process (more common to real-world scenarios), entropy tends to increase.
* During '''phase changes''' (from solid to liquid, or to gas), entropy increases because the number of possible arrangements of particles increases.
* If '''∆G<0''', the chemical reaction is spontaneous and favourable in that direction.
* If '''∆G=0''', the reactants and products of chemical reaction are at equilibrium.
* If ∆G>0, the chemical reaction is non-spontaneous and unfavorable in that direction.
* ∆G is '''not an indicator''' for velocity or rate of chemical reaction at which equilibrium is reached. It depends on amount of enzyme and energy activation.