LOOK OUT! IT’S A SHARK! Time to jump ship. Swimming faster means breathing deeper, and that fish is gonna need all the oxygen it can get. This is your chance to leap into the ocean.

Go through the process of RESPIRATION.
Water with dissolved oxygen in it is pulled in through the gills of a fish. There, the oxygen is exchanged with carbon dioxide in a process of diffusion. The released carbon dioxide is suspended in the water. The oxygen is carried by blood to other parts of the body, where it 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, being broken down as they go. Eventually, pieces pile up on each other, adding more layers to the ocean floor. Pressure from the accumulating material and 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 wikipedia.org/Sedimentation

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You are Carbon in anAquatic Animal

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

glucose, a protein, an enzyme, DNA, RNA, a starch