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Up to now I have been dealing with the animal as a black box with input of food and output of live weight and have noted some regularities between the input and output. No doubt these regularities are due to the unique ways living systems use the free energy and the body building materials in the food for growth and maintenance. It is well known open living and nonliving chemical systems are so constructed that the material and energy balances are interconnected to maintain them as stable, steady state, consuming, and producing systems.
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Parks, J.R. (1982). Energy, Feeding, and Growth. In: A Theory of Feeding and Growth of Animals. Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68330-5_11
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