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Living organisms are not closed systems but are open to the environment. At each instant they receive energy and matter from the environment, and lose to the environment an equal flow of the same. The very process of life entails this exchange with the environment. Without these in-and-out energy and matter flows, life is not possible. The water tank of Fig. 1 represents any of these flows that traverse the living body.
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Cabanac, M. (2005). Physiology and Behavior. In: Walz, W. (eds) Integrative Physiology in the Proteomics and Post-Genomics Age. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-925-7:095
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