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Study Calorie lecture notes PDF with biology definitions and explanation to study What is Calorie?. Study calorie explanation with biology terms to review biology course for online degree programs.

Calorie Definition:

  • A calorie is the amount of heat it takes to raise the temperature of 1 g of water by 1°C.

    Campbell Biology by J.B. Reece, L.A. Urry, M.L. Cain, S.A. Wasserman, P.V. Minorsky, R.B. Jackson



Calorie Notes:

Calorie is a measure of energy and does not measure weight or length. It is the unit that describes an energy present in a particular amount of food for example. Technically, the calorie was intended to be the amount energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C or 1 K, which is the same increment. That amount however depends on the atmospheric pressure and the starting temperature.

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