Cells remain organized for long periods of time and new, organized cells form. Why does this not go against the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
What will be an ideal response?
The Second Law applies to the system as a whole, not to one specific part. If energy becomes less dispersed in an organism, that is balanced by energy becoming more dispersed somewhere else in the universe.
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