If entropy always increases, then how do living organisms create macromolecules, cells, and complex higher-order structures?A. The laws of thermodynamics do not apply to living organisms.B. Living organisms use energy from the sun to accomplish the work of decreasing entropy.C. Living organisms use energy to decrease their own entropy, but generate waste heat that increases the total entropy of the organism and its environment.D. Living organisms convert light energy or chemical energy into organic matter.E. The increase in entropy as the organism grows is balanced by a decrease in entropy of the universe

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