what life process involves obtaining material and changing it into useful forms?

Question

anonymous · Answer

Do you mean like metabolism? I think thats what you need lol

anonymous · Answer

nutrition and digestion

anonymous · Answer

not only in nutrition and digestion are material converted to useful forms or to energy, for example phototrophs get there energy from light. I think you are looking for the overall answer metabolism.

anonymous · Answer

it says "obtaining material and changing..."   so nutrition/digestion

metabolism refers to the chemical reactions involved in assimilating the nutrients taken in...  and not to "Obtaining"

anonymous · Answer

^^ that might have been an issue of a poorly worded problem. Im guessing the answer they were looking for is metabolism