Chapter 8 And 9 Flashcards
The totality of an organisms chemical reactions
Metabolism
Breakdown pathways
Catabolic pathways
Consume energy to build complicated molecules from simpler ones
Anabolic pathways
It is energy that matter possesses because of it location or structure
Potential energy
A measure of disorder
Enthropu
Is the portion of a systems energy that can perform work when temperature and pressure are uniform through the system, as in a living cell
Free energy
Net release of free energy
Exergonic reaction
Absorbs free energy from its surroundings
Endogonic reaction
The recipient of a phosphate group
Phosphorylated
A chemical agent that speeds to a reaction without being consumed by the reaction
Catalyst
A macromolecule that acts as a catalase
Wnzyme
The energy required to contort the reactant molecules so the bonds can break
Activation energy
At the summit when the reactants are in an unstable condition
Transition state
The reactant an enzyme acts on
Substrate
Is typically a poket or groove on the surface of the protein where catalysis occurs
Active site
Enzyme changes shape slightly so that the active site fits even more snugly around the substrate
Induced fit
Bound tightly to enzymes as permanent residents
Cofactor
If cofactor is organic molecules
Coenzymes
Reduce the production of enzymes by blocking substrates from entering active site
Competitive inhibitors
Do not directly compete with the substrate to bind to the enzyme at the active site
Non competitive inhibitors
Is the term used to describe any care in which a proteins function at one site is affective by the binding of a regulatory molecule to a seperate site
Allosteric regulation
a metabolic pathway that is switched off by the inhibitory binding of its end product to an enzyme that acts early in the pathway
feedback inhibition
mechanism that amplifies the responce of enzymes to substrates
cooperativity
molecules aerobic and anarobic processes
cellular respiration