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Lecture 22 Flashcards

1
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What is the first law of thermodynamics?

A

The total energy within a system is constant, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted between forms

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2
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What does biology and biochemistry rely on?

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Energy conversions

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3
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Where does energy in biology originate from?

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The sun - light energy

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4
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How does photosynthesis convert energy to useful forms?

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Absorbs the light energy, with an additional intake of CO2 and generates ATP and O2

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5
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What is the ATP generated in photosynthesis used for?

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Anabolism

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6
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What is anabolism?

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Using energy to make bigger molecules (fuel molecules)

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7
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What is the energy generated through eating used in?

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Catabolism

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What is catabolism?

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Generating ATP from breaking chemical bonds

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9
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What is the ATP generated in catabolism used for?

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Cellular work e.g. anabolism, transportation or signalling

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10
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What is ATP

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Adenosine triphosphate

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Where is the energy stored in ATP?

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In the phosphoanhydride bonds (P-O)

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12
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What is ATP synthesis

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How ATP is synthesised from ADP + P using the energy generated from the catabolism of dietary fuel molecules

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13
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What is ATP hydrolysis?

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How ATP is used on anabolic precursors to generate products of cellular work

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14
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What is hydrolysis?

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Reaction where a chemical bond is broken using water, the water molecule is then consumed in the separation of a larger molecule

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15
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What is macronurtients?

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Large molecules, polymers, consumed in food

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What are the macronutrient polymers?

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Carbohydrates, protein, fat, nucleic acids

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17
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What is the monomer of a carbohydrate?

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Monosaccharides (glucose)

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18
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What is the monomer of a protein?

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Amino acids

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19
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What is the monomer of fat?

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Fatty acids

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20
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What is the monomer of nucleic acids?

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Nucleotides

21
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What does digestion involve?

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hydrolysis of bonds connecting monomer units and absorption from GI tract into body

22
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After the consumed polymers are catabolised, what are the monomers used for?

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Anabolism to create functional gene polymers

23
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What is micronutrients?

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Minerals and vitamins consumed in the diet, and used as cofactors

24
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What are minerals?

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Inorganic elements consumed in the diet

25
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What are the two types of minerals?

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Major and minor

26
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What are the major minerals?

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Inorganic elements with a great abundance in the body

27
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What are the minor minerals?

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Inorganic elements with a low abundance in the body therefore at low concentrations so can be hard to identify and measure

28
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What are vitamins?

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Organic substances in the diet

29
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What are the two types of vitamin?

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Water soluble and fat soluble

30
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What are water soluble vitamins?

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Vitamins that cannot be stored, B class in metabolism

31
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What are the fat soluble vitamins?

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Vitamins that can be stored in the adipose fat and mobilised when needed

32
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What is a cofactor?

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Small molecules required for the activity of an associated enzyme. They have a range of mechanisms

33
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What are coenzymes?

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A type of cofactor, organic and often derived from vitamins

34
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What are the key features of coenzymes in pathways?

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Low concentration in cells, can act as carriers and have two forms

35
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What are the key coenzymes?

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NAD, FAD, CoA

36
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What is gibbs free energy?

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A measure of the spontaneity of a reaction

37
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If ΔG < 0 for A → B then?

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The reaction is spontaneous, energy is released as A > B and the reaction is energetically favourable

38
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If ΔG = 0 for A → B then?

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The reaction is in equilibrium, there is similar energy is A and B and no work can be done; no driving force

39
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If ΔG < 0 for A → B then?

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The reaction is non-spontaneous, energy is required as B > A and the reaction is energetically unfavourable. An enzyme cannot make this happen

40
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Is ATP hydrolysis energetically favourable or unfavourable?

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Favourable, ΔG = -30kJ/mol

41
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Is ATP synthesis energetically favourable or unfavourable?

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Unfavourable, ΔG = 30kJ/mol

42
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What are the two key pathways of reaction types?

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Those involving ADP → ATP
and RedOx reactions

43
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What occurs during redox reactions?

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Fuel molecules get oxidised

44
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What is oxidation?

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The loss of an electron, this is the reducing agent and provides reducing power

45
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What is reduction?

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The gain of an electron, this is the oxidising agent and provides oxidising power

46
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What do biological redox reaction often use?

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A hydrogen atom, therefore referred to as a reducing equivalent

47
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What is the name for the enzymes that catalyse redox reaction using a H atom?

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Dehydrogenase

48
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What is the stepwise oxidation pathway?

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The process of capturing energy from sugar through breaking the bonds using a series of steps instead of just one

49
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Why do we need the stepwise oxidation pathway?

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Because directly burning sugar releases all the energy as heat which is not useful in the cell

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