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What is the first law of Thermodynamics?

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Energy can be transferred and transformed but cannot be created or destoryed

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What is the second law of thermodynamics?

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Every energy transfer/transformed increases the entropy of the universe.

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What is Metabolism?

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the totality of an organisms chemical reaction

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What is catabolism and what does it do?

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It is a breakdown process that breaks large molecules into smaller ones through an exergonic reaction

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What is anabolism and what does it do?

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It is a building/synthesizing process; brings up monomers to make polymers through an endogonic reaction

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What is energy?

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The capacity to cause change

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What is Thermal Energy?

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Kinetic energy + random movement of particles ; Heat

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What is Chemical Energy?

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The avaiable energy that can be used

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What is Thermodynamics?

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The study of energy transformations

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What is entropy?

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it refers to the disorderliness in the universe

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What process can occur without energy?

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A spontaneous process

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What process needs energy to occur?

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A non-spontaneous process

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What is free energy?

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energy that can do work when temperature and pressure are uniformed

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What is an exergonic reaction?

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releases energy

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What is an Endergonic reaction?

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absorbs energy

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What reaction uses a non-spontaneous process?

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Endergonic reaction

17
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What reaction uses a spontaneous process?

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Exergonic reaction

18
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What does Pi refer to?

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An inorganic phosphate

19
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What happens when ATP goes through hydrolysis?

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It becomes ADP with an inorganic phosphate

20
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What is activation energy?

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The initial energy needed to start a chemical reaction

21
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Why are enzymes needed?

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Cells try to save more energy so enzymes are needed so that cells give up energy to make more cells

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What is an enzyme’s substrate?

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The reactant that the enzyme is on

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What is an enzyme-substrate complex?

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When the enzyme bunds to its substrate

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What is the active site?

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Where on the enzyme that the substrate binds

25
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What are Factors that influence an enzymes activity?

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More substrate molecules, temperature and pH, and chemicals that specifically influence the enzyme

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