Third Exam Flashcards
What is catabolism?
Degregation, releases energy
What is anabolism?
Biosynthesis, uses energy
What is activation energy?
Minimum amount of energy required for a reaction to occur
What is an active site?
where specific substrates may bind to for a reaction to take place
What do coenzymes do?
helps mediate bond between enzyme and substrate
What are constitutive enzymes?
Always produced in equal amounts
What are inducible enzymes?
production is induced or repressed in response to substrate concentration
What is competitive inhibition?
inhibitor molecules partially fit an active site and blocks it
What is allosteric inhibition?
inhibitor molecules bind to a regulatory site on the enzyme
What is the difference between endergonic and exergonic reactions?
Where is the majority of energy stored in ATP?
The terminal (third) phosphate
What is substrate-level phosphorylation?
Reaction where a phosphate is directly transferred from a substrate to ADP or GDP to create ATP and GTP
What is oxidative phosphorylation?
The process of harnessing the energy of oxygen reduction to manufacture ATP
What is photophosphorylation?
The manufacturing of ATP through using sunlight by activating PS2
What are activated carriers?
temporary shuttles that carry energy (hydrogen molecules) to prevent loss of energy
What are the products of each activated carrier?
NAD –> NADH
FAD –> FADH2
NADP –> NADPH
What is autotrophic?
Make their own sugars from inorganic carbon
What is heterotrophic?
Need an external source of organic carbon
Where is glycogen stored?
Liver
Where are lipids stored?
Adipocytes
What is the respiratory pathway?
Glycolysis
Kreb’s Cycle
Electron Transport Chain
Where does glycolysis take place?
cytoplasm
Where does the Kreb’s cycle take place?
mitochondrial matrix in eukaryotes
Where does the electron transport chain take place?
Inner mitochondrial membrane in eukaryotes
What is hexokinase?
Converts glucose to G6P during glycolysis
What is PFK1?
Produces fructose 1, 6 bi phosphate during glycolysis
What is pyruvate kinase?
Converts phospoenol pyruvate to pyruvate during glycolysis