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Third Exam Flashcards

1
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What is catabolism?

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Degregation, releases energy

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What is anabolism?

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Biosynthesis, uses energy

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3
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What is activation energy?

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Minimum amount of energy required for a reaction to occur

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What is an active site?

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where specific substrates may bind to for a reaction to take place

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5
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What do coenzymes do?

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helps mediate bond between enzyme and substrate

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6
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What are constitutive enzymes?

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Always produced in equal amounts

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7
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What are inducible enzymes?

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production is induced or repressed in response to substrate concentration

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8
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What is competitive inhibition?

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inhibitor molecules partially fit an active site and blocks it

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9
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What is allosteric inhibition?

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inhibitor molecules bind to a regulatory site on the enzyme

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10
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What is the difference between endergonic and exergonic reactions?

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11
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Where is the majority of energy stored in ATP?

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The terminal (third) phosphate

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12
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What is substrate-level phosphorylation?

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Reaction where a phosphate is directly transferred from a substrate to ADP or GDP to create ATP and GTP

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13
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What is oxidative phosphorylation?

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The process of harnessing the energy of oxygen reduction to manufacture ATP

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14
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What is photophosphorylation?

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The manufacturing of ATP through using sunlight by activating PS2

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15
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What are activated carriers?

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temporary shuttles that carry energy (hydrogen molecules) to prevent loss of energy

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16
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What are the products of each activated carrier?

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NAD –> NADH
FAD –> FADH2
NADP –> NADPH

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17
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What is autotrophic?

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Make their own sugars from inorganic carbon

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18
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What is heterotrophic?

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Need an external source of organic carbon

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19
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Where is glycogen stored?

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Liver

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20
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Where are lipids stored?

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Adipocytes

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21
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What is the respiratory pathway?

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Glycolysis
Kreb’s Cycle
Electron Transport Chain

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22
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Where does glycolysis take place?

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cytoplasm

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23
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Where does the Kreb’s cycle take place?

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mitochondrial matrix in eukaryotes

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24
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Where does the electron transport chain take place?

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Inner mitochondrial membrane in eukaryotes

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25
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What is hexokinase?

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Converts glucose to G6P during glycolysis

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26
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What is PFK1?

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Produces fructose 1, 6 bi phosphate during glycolysis

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27
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What is pyruvate kinase?

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Converts phospoenol pyruvate to pyruvate during glycolysis

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28
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What is pyruvate dehydrogenase?

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Converts pyruvate into acetyl CoA during Kreb’s

29
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What is citrate synthase?

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Produces citrate from acetyl CoA and OOA during Kreb’s

30
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When in the Kreb’s cycle is ATP produced?

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When Succinyl CoA is broken down into Succinate

31
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How many times do activated carriers take hydrogens in the Krebs cycle?

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Five times

32
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What is NADH dehydrogenase?

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Removes electron from NADH

33
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What is coenzyme Q?

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ETC, receives electrons from NADH dehydrogenase and FMN

34
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What is FMN?

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Removes electron from the activated carrier FADH2

35
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What is Cytochrome C oxidase?

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Part of ETC, reduces molecular oxygen at the end of the respiratory chain

36
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What does ATP synthase do?

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fuels ATP synthesis via the transport of H+ ions

37
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How much ATP does ETC produce?

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38
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What is chemiosmosis?

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39
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What is proton motive force?

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40
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What does pyruvate do without oxygen?

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Ferment into either lactate or ethanol

41
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What is gluconegenesis?

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Synthesizes glucose from pyruvate

42
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What is chlorophyll?

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43
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What are thylakoids?

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Mitochondrial membrane like structures that function similarly in plant cells

44
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What is the stoma?

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Where carbohydrate synthesis in cells occurs

45
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What are the stages of photosynthesis?

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Light Reaction
Calvin Cycle

46
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What is photophosophorylation?

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the conversion of ADP to ATP using the energy of sunlight by activation of PSII

47
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What is PS2?

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Splits water and strips electrons from the hydrogens, producing hydrogens ions and oxygen

48
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What is PS1?

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Adds electrons to NADP as the final electron carrier

49
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What is RuBisCO?

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The enzyme responsible for the production of G3P

50
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What is G3P?

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End product of Calvin Cycle, the precursor of all organic compounds

51
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What does a fast reaction rate mean?

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Uses proteins already in cells

52
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What does a slow reaction rate mean?

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Involve changes in gene expression and production of new proteins

53
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What is GCPR?

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mediate most cellular responses to hormones and neurotransmitters

54
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What is ion-channel coupled?

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Has receptors that activate an ion channel

55
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What is G-Protein-coupled?

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receives signals and Binds GTP and breaks it down to GDP

56
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What is Enzyme coupled?

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Receive signals which activate their enzymatic function

57
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What does adding a phosphate tend to do?

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Activate an enzyme

58
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What are RTKs?

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mediating cell-to-cell communication

59
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What are the five signaling pathways?

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Endocrine
Paracrine
Autocrine
Neuronal
Contact

60
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What is the endocrine pathway?

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Public, throughout the blood stream

61
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What is the paracrine pathway?

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Local mediators, not in blood

62
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What is the autocrine pathway?

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Self-signaling

63
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What is the neuronal pathway?

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Neurotransmitters and action potentials that make “phone calls”

64
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What is the contact dependent pathway?

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Cells have to be touching for signaling to occur

65
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What are two examples of the endocrine pathway?

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Insulin
Cortisol

66
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What are two examples of the paracrine pathway?

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Histamines
Nitric Oxide

67
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What are two examples of the neuronal pathway?

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Nerve cells
Acetylcholine

68
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What is an example of the autocrine pathway?

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T cells and the cytokine IL-2

69
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What are two examples of the contact dependent pathway?

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Drosophila cell specialization
Natural Killer cells

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