Cellular Respiration Flashcards
What are the three forms of energy?
- Potential Energy
- Kinetic Energy
- Chemical Energy
What is potential energy?
Stored energy in molecules especially in chemical bonds.
What is Kinetic Energy?
-Energy of motion
What is Chemical Energy?
A type of potential energy due to the arrangement of atoms
What is Thermodynamics?
The study of energy and energy transformations.
What are the two laws of Thermodynamics?
-First Law- Energy can be transformed between forms but cannot be created or destroyed
- Second Law- All energy transformations increase the entropy of the universe
What is Entropy?
Entropy- The measure of disorder in a system
What is an Exergonic Reaction?
Release of free energy; the product contains more energy than the reactant.
What is a key example of an exergonic reaction?
Cellular respiration because it produces heat.
What is a Endergonic Reaction?
stores free energy
what is an example of an endergonic reaction?
photosynthesis because solar energy is being pushed into the cell
What is energy coupling?
The use of small exergonic reactions to drive endergonic reaction by using ATP
what does ATP stand for?
Adenosine Triphosphate
What three responsibilities do ATP have?
-Mechanical work
-Transport work
- Chemical Work
If a terminal Phosphate group is removed from the adenosine Triphosphate, what is left behind?
Pi- inorganic Phosphate
ADP- Adenosine diphosphate
ATP is continuously regenerating through what process?
Phosphorylation
what is Phosphorylation?
-The process in which ATP is continuously being getting regenerated
-Addition of a phosphate group to a molecule