Chapter 8-Personal Outline Flashcards

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_________________ the total of all chemical reaction occurring in a given organism. This property of life arises from Order.

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Metabolism:

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_______________: this reaction begins with a specific molecule, which is then altered in a series of defined steps, resulting in a certain product. Each step of this reaction catalyzes a specific enzyme.

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Metabolic Pathway:

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__________________: the breakdown pathways. A major pathway of catabolism is cellular respiration, where glucose is broken down in the presence of oxygen and water.

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Catabolic pathways:

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_____________________: these consume energy to build complicated molecules from simpler ones, such as the synthesis of amino acids.

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Anabolic pathways:

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____________________: the study of how energy flows through living organisms.

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Bioenergetics:

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__________________: Energy the Capacity to do work, the capacity to cause change.

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Energy:

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________________: the energy of motion. This type of energy can be attributed to objects moving.

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Kinetic Energy:

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__________________: the energy stored in the structure of something. It is present in an object that is not moving but could be moving.

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Potential Energy:

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___________________: the kinetic energy associated with the random movement of atoms.

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Thermal Energy:

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____________________: the potential energy stored in the bonds of molecules. The potential it has for a chemical reaction.

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Chemical Energy:

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__________________: the transfer of thermal energy from one object to another.

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Heat:

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____________________: the study of energy transformation that occur in matter.

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Thermodynamics:

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________________________: energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but it can be transferred or transferred.

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First Law of Thermodynamics:

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___________________: Energy processed are not 100% efficient, some energy is always lost as heat.

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Second Law of Thermodynamics:

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_________________: A measure of disorder, or randomness. All energy processed move toward increasing entropy.

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Entropy:

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________________________: is the portion of a systems energy that can perform work when temperature and pressure are uniform throughout the system, as in a living cell.

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Free Energy:

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^G=^H-T^S:

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delta H symbolizes the change in the systems total energy. Delta S symbolizes the change in the systems entropy and T is the Temperature.

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^G=G Final- G initial:

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G is always negative.

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_________________: a reaction that releases energy

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Exergonic Reaction

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_______________________: a reaction that absorbs energy

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Endogenic Reaction

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_________________: when the rate at which forward and release reaction occur at the same time and rate.

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Chemical Equilibrium

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________________: the use of energy in the cell to exogeniclly process to drive an endogenic process.

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Energy Coupling:

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_________________: the energy used to power the cell. Made of the nitrogenous base Adenine, the sugar ribose and 3 high-energy phosphates

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ATP (adenosine triphosphate)

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__________________: the break down of ATP into ADP for use in the cell.

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ATP Hydrolysis:

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__________________: a receptor-mediated group with a phosphate group covalently bonded to it.

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Phosphorylated Intermediate

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___________________: the build of ATP from ADP, P, and Energy.

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ADP P Dehydration

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_____________________: a macromolecule that acts as a catalyst by lowering the activation energy of a metabolic reaction so that it may speed the reaction to a rate that supports life.

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Enzymes:

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________________: a chemical agent that speeds up a reaction without being consumed by the reaction.

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Catalyst:

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________________: the amount of energy necessary for the reaction to begin.

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Activation Energy:

30
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_________________: the reactants in an enzymatic reaction

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Substrates

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___________________: the location of an enzymatic reaction

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Active Site:

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_______________________: to substrates bind at the active site and leave as one enzyme.

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Enzyme Substrate Complex:

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__________________: the idea that each substrate and active site is chemical made for each other.

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Induced FIt

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____________________: enzymes can be destroyed at extreme PH’s or temperatures.

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Denaturation of Enzymes:

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________________: reduce productivity of enzymes by block substrates from entering active sites.

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Competitive Inhibitors:

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_________________: do not compete with the substrate to bind to the enzyme at the active site.

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Non-Competitive Inhibitors:

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_______________: the term used to describe any case in which our body’s proteins are affected by the binding of regulatory enzymes

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Allosteric Regulation:

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__________________: this mechanism amplifies the response of enzymes to the substrate.

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Cooperatively:

39
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____________________: a metabolic pathway is halted by the inhibitory binding of its end product to an enzyme that acts early in the pathway.

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Feedback Inhibition: