Note: 1,000 career games played are needed to make this list of the one-thousand greatest on base plus slugging leaders, raw averages are presented in parenthesis to further distinguish the top one-hundred, and a bold faced entry denotes that the player was active during the previous Major League season.
Primary active transport, directly uses metabolic energy (ATP) to transport molecules across a membrane.
Generally stars spend most of their active lives travelling through the stage of stellar life-cycle known as the Main Sequence. I say 'active' life because the remnants of dead stars can persist more or less indefinitely, slowly fading into obscurity. I say 'generally' because even dead stars sometimes find ways to obtain new life