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Bioenergetics Flashcards

1
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What is bioenergetics?

A

Branch of biochem that focuses on how cells tranform energy

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2
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What is the first law of thermodynamics?

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Energy cannot be created or destroyed only converted

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3
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What is the second law of thermodynamics?

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Entropy must increase of a reaction is to be spontaneous

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4
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What are energy releasing reactions called?

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Exergonic

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5
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What are energy dependant reactions called?

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Endergonic

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6
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What kind of reaction when ^G is negative?

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Exergonic

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7
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What kind of reaction when ^G is positive?

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Endergonic

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8
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Is the reaction spontaneous or not spontaneous in standard conditions when the reaction is endergonic (^G+)

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Not spontaneous

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9
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Is the reaction spontaneous or not spontaneous in standard conditions when the reaction is exergonic (^G-)

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Spontaneous

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10
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What is used to drive the synthesis of ATP?

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Energy stored in NADH

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11
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What is NADH?

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Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

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12
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What is FADH2?

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Reduced flavin adenine dinucleotide

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13
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What are NADH and FADH2?

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Reduced coenzymes

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14
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How can the cell regulate enzyme activity?

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Change number of enzymes
Change catalytic activity of preexisting enzymes

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15
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How can the number of enzymes be regulated?

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Through gene expression

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16
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Is the regulation og number of enzymes fast or slow

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Slow

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17
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Can ATP be an allosteric regulator?

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Yes for some enzymes (dependant on their allosteric and active site)

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18
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What can regulate catalytic activity?

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Phosphorylation
Allosteric regulation
Control of substrate concentration

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19
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Why does the gamma bond in ATP give off the most energy?

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Because the negative phosphates give high instability and thus high energy and there are more phosphates present when it is ATP instead of ADP

20
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Why is ATP so useful?

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Because its an easy donor and easy acceptor so it transfers energy easily
Small molecule

21
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Are NAD and NADP usually freely diffusible or enzyme bound?

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Freely diffusible

22
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Are FMN and FAD usually freely diffusible or enzyme bound?

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Enzyme bound

23
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What do you produce in the catabolic pathways?

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ATP

24
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Why does ATP have a high phosphoryl-transfer potential? (4)

A

Resonance stabilisation
Electrostatic repulsion
Increase in entropy
Stabilisation by hydration

25
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What is creatine kinase storage of?

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Energy in the form of phosphate (energy from access ATP)

26
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Oxidation reactions involve the loss of what?

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Electrons

27
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What can you get more energy out of: more reduced or more oxidated?

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More reduced

28
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Why can you get more energy from fatty acids than glucose?

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Because they ar more reduced

29
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Are fatty acids free to travel in the blood?

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No they have to be bonded to albumin

30
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Which includes reduction, anabolism or catabolism?

A

Anabolism

31
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Which includes oxidation, anabolism or catabolism?

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Catabolism

32
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Are ^G additive?

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Yes

33
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Which reactions indirectly provide much of the energy needed to make ATP?

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Oxidation-reduction

34
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Is NADP positive or negative?

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Positive

35
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Equation for free energy change ^G=?

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^G=^H-T^S

36
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Is the free energy change for a reaction dependant of the pathway by which the section occurs?

A

No, independant

37
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Which reactions are thermodynamically unfavourable?

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Endergonic

38
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How can an endergonic reaction be driven in the forward direction?

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By coupling it to a highly exergonic reaction

39
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2 forces all chemical reactions are influenced by

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Tendency to achieve the most stable bonding state
Tendency to achieve the highest degree of randomness

40
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Why does ATP give off so much energy?

A

High energy bonds
Negative phosphate group gives high instability which gives more energy

41
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Why is ATP a good “middle man”?

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Because it transfers energy easily
Easy donor and easy acceptor
Small molecule
Simple and easy reaction

42
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4 compounds aside from ATP with high-energy bonds

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1,3-bisphosphoglycerate
Cr4eatine phosphate
Phosphoenolpyruvate
Acetyl CoA

43
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4 universal electron carriers

A

NAD
NADP
FMN
FAD

44
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What are NAD, NADP, FMN and FAD?

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Water-soluable coenzymes that undergo reversible oxidation and reduction

45
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What are activated carriers?

A

Molecules that can be split to release free energy

46
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What can a dietary deficiency of niacin cause?

A

Pellagra

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