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Energy |
The capacity to bring about movement against an opposing force |
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Potential Energy |
Stored energy |
A rock perched precariously at the top of the hill |
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Kinetic Energy |
Energy in motion |
A rock tumbling down a hill |
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Thermodynamics |
The study of energy |
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First Law of Thermodynamics |
Energy is never created or destroyed, only transformed |
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Second Law of Thermodynamics |
In yielding matter, matter goes from a more ordered state to a less ordered state |
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Energy that is stored is __1__ energy, while energy in motion is __2__ energy. |
1. Potential 2. Kinetic |
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The first law of Thermodynamics says that energy is never __1__ or __2__ but is only __3__. |
1. Created 2. Destroyed 3. Transformed |
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The second law of Thermodynamics says that energy transfers always results in a greater amount of _____ in the universe. |
Disorder |
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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. |
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Exergonic Reactions |
The starting set of molecules contain more energy than the final set of molecules |
Starches breaking down into sugars |
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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 |
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Coupled Reaction |
A chemical reaction in which an exergonic reaction powers an endergonic reaction |
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ATP |
Important energy transfer molecule in living things |
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This item represents 1 |
Phosphate groups |
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This item represents 2 |
Adenosine |
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This item represents 3 |
Ribose |
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This item represents 4 |
ATP |
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This item represents 5 |
Endergonic Reactions |
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This item represents 6 |
Exergonic Reactions |
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This item represents 9 |
Adenine |
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This item represents 10 |
ADP |
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This item represents |
This item represents energy that can come from glucose |
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This item represents |
This item represents energy that would come from ATP |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Enzyme |
A type of protein that accelerates a chemical reaction by lowering activation energy |
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Substrate |
The substance that is worked on by an enzyme |
Lactase/Lactose |
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Metabolic Pathway |
A set of enzymatically controlled steps that results in the completion of a product or process in an organism |
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Metabolism |
The sum of all the chemical reactions that a cell or larger organism carries out |
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Activation Energy |
The energy required to initiate a chemical reaction |
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Catalysts |
Substances that retain their original chemical composition while bringing about a change in a substrate |
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Active Site |
The portion of an enzyme that binds with a substrate, thus helping transform it. |
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Coenzymes |
Molecules other than amino acids that facilitate the work of enzymes by binding with them |
B vitamins |
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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 |
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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 |
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An enzyme is a type of __1__ that __2__ a chemical reaction. |
1. Protein 2. Accelerates |
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The substance that an enzyme works on is known as its _____. |
Substrate |
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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 |
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Activation energy is the energy required to __1__ a chemical reaction. Enzyme's work by __2__ activation energy. |
1. Initiate 2. Lowering |
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