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1
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What is anabolism?

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Building of molecules

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What is catabolism?

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Digestion of molecules

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What is responsible for the activities of the cells?

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Energy and enzymes

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What activities are energy and enzymes responsible for in the cell?

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Transport of millions of proteins and vesicles moving between organelles

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What is energy?

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The ability to do work or cause change.

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What is potential energy?

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Energy stored in an object

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What is chemical energy?

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Potential energy in a chemical reaction

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What is kinetic energy?

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Energy of an object in motion

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How is energy measured?

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In joules

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What is the first law of thermodynamics?

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Energy can be transferred and transformed, but not created or destroyed

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What is the second law of thermodynamics?

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Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe

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What is entropy?

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Disorder of the universe

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What is free energy?

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The portion of a system’s energy that is available to do work

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14
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Why do systems tend to change spontaneously?

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To meet a more stable State

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What kinds of systems are rich in free energy that have the tendency to change to the opposite?

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Unstable systems

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What is the relationship with energy, stability and work capacity when there is a lot of free energy?

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When there is more free energy, the system is less stable and work capacity is greater.

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When there is less free energy, how does this affect the stability and work capacity?

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There is more stability and less work capacity

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What are exorgonic chemical reactions?

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Chemical reactions that release energy

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Whet kind of reaction is there a digestion of polymers? (Exo or endo)

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Exorgonic

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20
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Is catabolism or anabolism involved in hydrolysis?

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Catabolism

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What kinds of chemical reactions are spontaneous with less organization and lower energy state?

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Exorgonic

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22
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What reactions require an input of energy?

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Endergonic

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What kind of chemical reactions build polymers, have more organization and a higher energy state?

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Endergonic

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24
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Is dehydration synthesis catabolism or anabolism?

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Anabolism

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25
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What kind of reaction is cellular respiration?

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Spontaneous

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26
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What kind of reaction is photosynthesis? (Sponanteous or not)

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Non-spontaneous

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27
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What kind of systems are organisms?

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Endorgonic

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28
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What do organisms need energy for?

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Synthesis/building of biomolecules, reproduction, movement and active transport

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29
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What are the 3 main types of work done in the cell?

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Mechanical chemical and transport

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30
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How do cells manage energy resources to do work?

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By energy coupling

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31
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What is energy coupling?

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Using an exorgonic process to drive an enclorgonic one

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32
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How are the bonds between phosphate groups broken?

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Hydrolysis

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33
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What does ATP stand for?

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Adenosine triphosphate

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34
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What is the cell’s main energy source?

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ATP

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35
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What is ATP made of?

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Adenine, ribose and 3 phosphates

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36
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What kind of process is the addition of phosphates?.

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Endorgonic

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37
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What happens when ATP is hydrolyzed?

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It becomes ADP

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38
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What does ADP stand for?

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Adenosine diphosphate

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39
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What are features of ADP?

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Only a good short term energy storage, too reactive, transfers pi too easily

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40
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How do chemical reactions start?

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Non-spontaneously with required energy like a spark

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41
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What is activation energy?

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The amount of energy needed to destabilize the bonds of a molecule

42
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What is a catalyst?

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A substance that can change the rate of a reaction without being altered in the process

43
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What is an enzyme?

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A biological catalyst made of protein and rRNAthat facilitates chemical reactions by increasing the rate of reaction without being consumed, reducing activation energy and without changing free energy

44
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What kind of enzymes build molecules and what kind break down molecules and what kind speed up reactions?

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Synthesis enzymes build molecules ( anabolic )
digestion enzymes break down molecules (catabolic)
and catalysts speed up reactions

45
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What is a substrate?

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The reactant that an enzyme acts on

46
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How do an enzyme form an enzyme substrate complex?

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Enzymes bind to their substrates forming an enzyme substrate complex

47
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What is the active site?

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Where the substrate binds

48
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What do enzymes have building affinity for?

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Substrates and only bond specific things like functional groups

49
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What is the key to enzyme action?

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Specificity

50
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What is the induced fit in an enzyme?

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Enzyme fits snugly around substrates in a clasping handshake

51
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How are enzymes used in reactions?

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Enzymes aren’t completely used up or changed by reactions. They are usually only used temporarily then re-used for the same reaction with other molecules

52
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How much enzyme is needed to help in reactions?

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Very little

53
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Why do enzymes need to be certain shape?

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Enzymes are specific helpers to specific reactions so they need the right shape for the job

54
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What does sucrase do?

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Breaks down sucrose

55
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What does protease do?

A

Breaks down proteins

56
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What do lipases do?

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Break down lipids

57
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What do DNA polymerases do?

A

Break down DNA

58
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What is a metabolic pathway?

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A pathway that has many steps which begin with a specific molecule and end with a product that is catalyzed by a specific enzyme

59
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What are biosynthetic pathways divided into?

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Catabolic and anabolic pathways

60
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What do catabolic pathways do?

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They release energy by breaking down complex molecules into simpler compounds

61
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What do anabolic pathways do?

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They consume energy to build complex molecules from simpler ones like amino acids to form proteins

62
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What affects/denatures enzyme action?

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Incorrect protein structure, temperature and ph

63
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What is the optimum temperature of enzymes?

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In between 35°c to 40°c

64
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What is the relationship between the optimum temperature of enzymes and the number of collisions between enzymes and substrates?

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When the enzymes is at the optimum temperature, there is the greatest number of collisions between enzymes and substrates

65
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What does raising the temperature above the optimum do to enzymes?

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It denatures the enzyme

66
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What does lowering the optimum temperature do to enzymes?

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It makes molecules slower with lower amount of collisions

67
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What does change in ph do to enzymes?

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Denatures the enzyme and disturbs the hydrogen bonds since ph of most human enzymes are between 6-8

68
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What is the ph in pepsin?

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3

69
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What is the ph in trypsin?

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8

70
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What are the other factors that affect enzyme function?

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Enzyme concentration, substrate concentration and salinity

71
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What happens as you increase the amount of enzymes?

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The reaction rate increases as well

72
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What happens over some time as the enzyme is increased?

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Eventually enzyme rate levels off as the substrate becomes the limiting factor

73
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Why do substrates become the limiting factor as enzyme concentration is increased?

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The enzymes can’t always find the substrates

74
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What happens as you increase the substrate?

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The reaction rate increases as the increased amount of substrate will collide more frequently with the enzyme

75
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When do reaction rates level off when the substrate concentration has increased?

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When all enzymes have active sites engaged

76
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What does salinity describe?

A

The salt concentration of an enzyme

77
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What does changes in salinity do?

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Add and removes cations and anions, disrupts the bonds , attractions between amino acids and denatures proteins

78
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What are enzymes intolerant of?

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Extreme salinity

79
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What is an activator?

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A compound that helps enzymes

80
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What are the types of activators?

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Co factors and coenzymes

81
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What are cofactors?

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non-protein in organic compounds and ions bound within the enzyme molecule

82
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What are examples of cofactors?

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Calcium, potassium, copper and iron

83
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What are co enzymes?

A

Non-protein organic molecules that bind temporarily or permanently to enzyme near active site.

84
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What are inhibitors?

A

Molecules which reduce enzyme activity

85
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What are the type of inhibitors?

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Competitive, non-competive, feedback and irreversible

86
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What inhibitors compete for the ‘‘active” site?

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Competitive inhibitors

87
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What inhibitor is penicillin and dissulfram cantabuse an example for and their uses?

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Penicillin blocks enzyme bacteria used to build cell walls the and other is used to treat chronic alcoholism. They are both competitive inhibitors.

88
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How can competitive inhibitors be overcome?

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By increasing the substrate concentration, so the solutionis saturated by the substrate

89
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What are non- competitive inhibitors?

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Inhibitor that bind to sites other than the active site

90
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Where does the allosteric inhibitor bind?

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To an allosteric site

91
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What causes a conformational change?

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The allosteric inhibitor binding to an allosteric site so the active site would no longer be considered functional

92
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What do cancer drugs do?.

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They inhibit enzymes involved in DNA synthesis to stop DNA production as well as the division of more cancer cells

93
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What are irreversible inhibitors?

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This is when the inhibitor binds permanently to an enzyme

94
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What type of inhibitor permanently changes the shape of the enzyme?

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Irreversible inhibitors

95
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What kind of inhibitor is cyanide and what does it do?

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An irreversible inhibitor of the chromosome, stopping the production of ATP

96
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What are feedback-inhibitors?

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The end products of metabolic pathways that shuts it down

97
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What do feedback inhibitors lead to?

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Negative and positive feedback

98
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What is negative feedback?

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An accumulation of end product that slows the process that produces that product

99
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What is the less common feedback?

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positive Feedback

100
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What is positive feedback?

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Feedback that produces an end product which speeds up production

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