Metabolism Flashcards

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Metabolism

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Flow of Energy

  • the capacity to do work
  • -work-movement, transport, or making things
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What general forms is Energy found in?

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  • Kinetic

- Potential

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Kinetic Energy

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Energy of movement/ motion

-light, heat, electrical

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Potential Energy

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Stored Energy

-Chemical bonds (in living things)

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Laws of Thermodynamics

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  1. Law of Conservation

2. Law of Entropy

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Law of Conservation

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Energy cannot be created of destroyed

-Changes forms

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Law of Entropy

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Disorder will increase

-As energy changes forms more energy is changed to forms we cannot use.

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Anabolic Reaction

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Putting something together, making something bigger

-Endergonic

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Catabolic Reaction

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Breaking something down

  • Exergonic
  • -not spontaneous
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Reaction Coupling

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An exergonic reaction powering an endergonic reaction.

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Endergonic

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Requires energy

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12
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Exergonic

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Gives off energy

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Energy measurement

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Heat is measured to measure the energy of something.

  • Calorie is the unit of energy measurement
  • The amount of heat it takes to raise 1gram water from 14.5C to 15.5C (1 degree Celsius)
  • Calorie= 1,000 calories or Kcal= 1kg water raised 1 degree Celsius.
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Energy of Activation

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Needed to get the reaction going

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15
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Types of Chemical reactions

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Anabolic Reaction

Catabolic Reaction

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