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Muscles, Fat, and Chloroplasts

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Numsgil:
Well now I'm curious.  Let me see if I can dig out my old bio book and look this up.

shvarz:
Nums, at some point I gave you a metabolsim scheme that had the real biological costs of building different molecules in the body, the energy obtained when splitting them, their relative density and mass.  Look through older messages or through PMs.  I'll take a look at my home computer to see if I saved the file somewhere.

And BTW, Nums is right about muscle being the last reserve.  First goes glycogen, then fat, then muscles.  The main problem with using muscles for energy is that it produces a lot of amines, which need to be coverted to urea and expelled from the body, which is very costly.  So the end gain in energy is pretty small.

Zinc Avenger:
Shvarz, I bow to your superior knowledge, consider me corrected and one step closer to perfection.

Numsgil:
BTW shvarz, I looked but couldn't find any PM from you like that (although there are alot to look through).

shvarz:
Oops, I forgot to look for it.  I'll do it tonight.

BTW, the search is now working!!!

So, here are a couple of discussions about energy and relative sizes of different molecules in a body:

http://www.darwinbots.com/Forum/index.php?showtopic=190&
http://www.darwinbots.com/Forum/index.php?showtopic=98&

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