Plants

• microbiome - tiny ecosystem living in an organism
• When your body dies, the microbiome in your body starts mass producing
• colder temperatures, more acidity, and no oxygen lower the rate of decomposition
• Cellular Respiration Equation: Glucose + Oxygen -> Carbon Dioxide + Water + ATP
• microbes get glucose from inside the dead organism and oxygen from the outside atmosphere
• low acidity does not mean low ph