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Energy

The capacity to bring about movement against an opposing force

Potential Energy

Stored energy

A rock perched precariously at the top of the hill

Kinetic Energy

Energy in motion

A rock tumbling down a hill

Thermodynamics

The study of energy

First Law of Thermodynamics

Energy is never created or destroyed, only transformed

Second Law of Thermodynamics

In yielding matter, matter goes from a more ordered state to a less ordered state

Energy that is stored is __1__ energy, while energy in motion is __2__ energy.

1. Potential


2. Kinetic

The first law of Thermodynamics says that energy is never __1__ or __2__ but is only __3__.

1. Created


2. Destroyed


3. Transformed

The second law of Thermodynamics says that energy transfers always results in a greater amount of _____ in the universe.

Disorder

Whenever energy is transferred some of the original quantity is lost to _____.

Heat

Chemical bonds in gasoline to the movement of a car's pistons.

Exergonic Reactions

The starting set of molecules contain more energy than the final set of molecules

Starches breaking down into sugars

Endergonic Reactions

Reactions in which the final set of molecules contain more energy than the starting set of molecules

Glucose molecules brought together to form glycogen

Coupled Reaction

A chemical reaction in which an exergonic reaction powers an endergonic reaction

ATP

Important energy transfer molecule in living things

This item represents 1

Phosphate groups

This item represents 2

Adenosine

This item represents 3

Ribose

This item represents 4

ATP

This item represents 5

Endergonic Reactions

This item represents 6

Exergonic Reactions

This item represents 9

Adenine

This item represents 10

ADP

This item represents

This item represents energy that can come from glucose

This item represents

This item represents energy that would come from ATP

Coupled reactions combine an endergonic reaction, in which the __1__ have more energy than the __2__, and an exergonic reaction, in which the __3__ have more energy than the __4__.

1. Products


2. Reactants


3. Reactants


4. Products

The energy for most coupled reactions in the body is supplied by the molecule __1__, in particular by the splitting off of this molecule's third or outer __2__.

1. ATP


2. Phosphate group

After powering a reaction, ATP becomes the molecule __1__, which, with the addition of another __2__, becomes ATP once more.

1. ADP


2. Phosphate group

Enzyme

A type of protein that accelerates a chemical reaction by lowering activation energy

Substrate

The substance that is worked on by an enzyme

Lactase/Lactose

Metabolic Pathway

A set of enzymatically controlled steps that results in the completion of a product or process in an organism

Metabolism

The sum of all the chemical reactions that a cell or larger organism carries out

Activation Energy

The energy required to initiate a chemical reaction

Catalysts

Substances that retain their original chemical composition while bringing about a change in a substrate

Active Site

The portion of an enzyme that binds with a substrate, thus helping transform it.

Coenzymes

Molecules other than amino acids that facilitate the work of enzymes by binding with them

B vitamins

Competitive Inhibition

A reduction in the activity of an enzyme by means of a compound other than the enzyme's usual substrate binding with it in its active site

Lipitor

Allosteric Regulation

The regulation of an enzyme's activity by means of a molecule binding to a site on the enzyme other than the active site

An enzyme is a type of __1__ that __2__ a chemical reaction.

1. Protein


2. Accelerates

The substance that an enzyme works on is known as its _____.

Substrate

A metabolic pathway is a linked series of enzymatically controlled reactions in which the __1__ of one reaction becomes the __2__ for the next one.

1. Product


2. Substrate

Activation energy is the energy required to __1__ a chemical reaction. Enzyme's work by __2__ activation energy.

1. Initiate


2. Lowering