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for order or organization to increase in a cell—for example, for amino acids that are floating around at random to be localized to different regions inside the cell, as shown here—what would have to happen? in general, what has to happen to overcome entropy—for a system to become more ordered or more highly organized?
diffusion would have to continue over an extremely long span of time.
this is not possible—entropy is a law of the universe (the second law of thermodynamics, if youve taken physics), and cant be overcome or violated.
there has to be an input of energy—for example, some protein would have to use energy to actively transport the amino acids from one part of the cell to the other.
Entropy is a measure of disorder. According to the second - law of thermodynamics, a system's entropy tends to increase or stay the same. For a system to become more ordered (decrease entropy), energy input is required. In a cell, to localize amino acids, proteins can use energy for active transport.
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There has to be an input of energy—for example, some protein would have to use energy to actively transport the amino acids from one part of the cell to the other.