Test 2 Part 1 Flashcards
What is bioenergetics?
Energy associated with biological systems
Release, storage, and use of this energy
How much of diet dry matter is used for energy?
75%
What is energy derived from?
Not a nutrient, so it comes from organic compounds in the diet
What is energy derived mean?
Complete or partial oxidation of organic compounds
Where are the organic compounds from derived energy absorbed?
GI tract
What is the form of energy?
Chemical form
Where is energy stored?
In covalent bonds
When can animals used the energy stored in bonds?
When they break the bonds
What does trapping energy require?
Systematic breaking of bonds and trapping electrons
Where does energy actually come from?
Electrons
What is the systematic breaking of bonds required for?
To produce energy
Where does chemical energy originally come from?
The sun
What is heat?
The most common form of energy in biochemical reactions
What does inefficient metabolism mean?
Body is not 100% efficient because not all ATP energy is used for work.
What happens when heat escapes(given off)?
It allows for optimum body temperature maintenance
What is a calorie?
Unit of heat measured
Amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1ºC from 14.5ºC to 15.5ºC at 1 atmospheric pressure
What is gross energy?
Caloric density
Total energy in a compound
How is gross energy measured?
With a bomb calorimeter
What is a bomb calorimeter? (3)
A pure O2 environment that ignites and blows up
Chemical energy is converted to heat
Heat produced is measured and that is the caloric density/gross energy
How many kcal/g is glucose?
3.75
How many kcal/g is CHO?
4
How many kcal/g is protein?
4
How many kcal/g is fat?
9
How many kcal/g is alcohol?
7
What is the 1st law of thermodynamics?
Energy is not created nor destroyed
It can be accounted for somewhere in the animal’s body
What type of energy is unavailable?
Fecal energy, urinary energy, and CH4
What is useful energy used for?
Work
What type of energy is heat?
Available, but not useful
What is heat increment?
How energy is lost
How is digestible energy calculated?
Gross energy – fecal energy
How is metabolizable energy calculated?
Gross energy – fecal energy – urinary energy(–Gaseous Products of Digestion=CH4)
What is metabolizable energy?
Actual energy available to tissues for metabolism
How is net energy calculated?
Gross energy – fecal energy – urinary energy(-GPD=CH4) – heat increment
What is net energy?
Actual energy used for work
Look at chart on page 33
Look at chart on page 33
What 5 things is energy utilized for?
1) Digestion and absorption of organic compounds containing covalent bonds
2) Excretion of energy containing compounds in feces and urine. Energy is not available to animal tissues
3) Metabolism of compounds that breaks the covalent bonds, transfers electrons, and releases energy
4) Trapping of energy as ATP for work
5) Produce heat from inefficient metabolism
Where do we get energy from?
Food
What does the oxidation of food release?
Free energy from chemical bonds
What is energy oxidized to? By what?
CO2 and water via enzymes
What is oxidation?
Loss of electrons from a compound
Leads to an increase in O2 content and a decrease in H content
What is reduction?
Gain of electrons
Leads to an increase in H content and a decrease in O2 content
What does the redox state determine?
Caloric density
If a compound is (more or less) reduced, there is (more or less) caloric density.
More, more
What is the most reduced nutrient?
Fat
What is oxygen?
Terminal electron acceptor in the body
Reduced to H2O
What do electron carriers do?
Transfer electrons in redox reactions (coenzymes)