Energy and ATP Flashcards
What is energy?
The ability to do work
What acronym helps remember energy forms?
Most kids hate learning GCSE energy names
What forms can energy take?
Mechanical Kinetic Heat Light Gravitational potential Chemical Sound Electric Elastic potential Nuclear
What is the conservation of energy?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed only transferred from one form to another
What is energy measured in?
Joules
What is the main reactant in for energy?
ATP
What does ATP stand for?
Adenosine Triphosphate
What is ATP?
A store of energy
A phosphorylated macromolecule
What is ATP made up of generally?
The nucleotide contains:
One 5 carbon sugar
A Base
3 phosphate groups
What is ATP made of exactly?
Ribose
Adenine (alkaline properties)
3 phosphate groups
What two ways can ATP be drawn?
Ribose - rectangle
Adenine - 2 ovals on the top left corner
3 phosphates - 3 ovals on the top right
Or
Ribose - hexagon
Adenine - rectangle on the top left corner
3 phosphates - 3 circles on the top right corner
What is ATP made from? What process?
Made from glucose
In respiration
How much ATP is produced from 1 glucose molecule?
38 molecules of ATP
How is energy released from ATP? What process?
The breakdown of ATP in removal of 1 phosphate group
Hydrolysis
Exothermic
What is produced from the hydrolysis of ATP?
ADP - Adenosine Diphosphate
An inorganic phosphate group
Energy