You are Carbon in Aquatic Animals

We’re here maintaining vitality in the body of a fish, exploring the watery wonderland hoping we don’t end up a dish.

Traveling through the food chain, carbon plays a wide range of roles in living things, from the sugars that fuel bodies to the backbone of DNA.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Aquatic_animal

NOTHING

Make a break for it! Those nasty predators and fishing boats only get worse. Dart toward surface waters, where air meets the OCEAN.

Go through the process of RESPIRATION.
Oxygen dissolved water is pulled in through the gills of a fish where it is exchanged with carbon dioxide in a process of diffusion. Blood carries the oxygen to other parts of the body where is reacts with organic carbon compounds to release the energy needed for life.

C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂ => 6CO₂ + 6H₂O + energy

Sugar+ Oxygen => Carbon Dioxide + Water + Energy

Living things burn sugar to release energy in the process of respiration.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Aquatic_respiration

Face it, fins can only fight gravity for so long. You will join us someday. Surrender yourself to SEDIMENT!

Go through the process of DECOMPOSITION.
Dead marine animals rich in carbon sink to the ocean floor, breaking apart. The parts that aren't eaten by other organisms eventually pile up on the ocean floor. Massive pressure from the ocean water above compounds the carbon into new long term forms.

C₆H₁₂O₆ => 2C₂H₅OH + 2C0₂

Sugar => Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide

Complex organic molecules are broken down to simpler forms in the process of decomposition.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Decomposition
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