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Totality of an organism's chemical processes.

Metabolism
Metabolic pathways which release energy by breaking down complex molecules to simpler compounds.
Catabolic pathways
Metabolic pathways which consume energy to build complicated molecules from simpler ones.
Anabolic pathways
the capacity to do work - to move matter against opposing forces.
Energy
Energy in the process of doing work (energy of motion).
Kinetic energy
Energy that matter possesses because of its location or arrangement (energy of position).
Potential energy
Study of energy transformations
Thermodynamics
Collection of matter under study which is isolated from its surroundings
Closed system
System in which energy can be transferred between the system and its surroundings.
Open system
Energy can be transferred and transformed, but it cannot be created or destroyed (energy of the universe is constant).
First Law of Thermodynamics
Every energy transfer or transformation makes the universe more disordered (every process increases the entropy of the universe).
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Quantitative measure of disorder that is proportional to randomness (designated by the letter S).
Entropy
Those reactions that can occur without outside help.
Spontaneous processes
Those reactions that can only occur if energy is added to a system.
Nonspontaneous processes
Portion of a system's energy available to do work; is the difference between the total energy (enthalpy) and the energy not available for doing work (TS).
Free energy (G)
Formula for free energy
G = H - TS
Formula for free energy change
ΔG = ΔH - TΔS
In the formula for free energy change, what is ∆G?
change in Free energy
In the formula for free energy change, what is ∆H?
change in Enthalpy (total energy)
In the formula for free energy change, what is ∆S?
change in Entropy
In the formula for free energy change, what is T?
Temperature in Kelvin
A reaction that proceeds with a net loss of free energy.
Exergonic reaction
An ________reaction is one that releases free energy to its surroundings.
exergonic
Δ G of an exergonic reaction is _____ (positive/negative)
negative.
Amount of energy that reactant molecules must absorb to start a reaction.
Energy of activation
Unstable condition of reactant molecules that have absorbed sufficient free energy to react.
Transition state
An energy-requiring reaction that proceeds with a net gain of free energy.

Endergonic reaction

An _____ reaction is one that requires free energy from its surroundings.
endergonic
Δ G of an endergonic reaction is ____ (positive/negative)
positive.
reaction in which the rates of forward and backward reactions are equal and there is no change in the concentration of products or reactants.
Chemical Equilibrium
The ΔG of a reaction at equilibrium is ______
Zero
To do work, cells manage energy resources by energy coupling, the use of an ___ process to drive an ____ one
exergonic/endergonic
Nucleoside triphosphate with unstable phosphate bonds that the cell hydrolyzes for energy to drive endergonic reactions.

ATP (adenosine triphosphate)

The bonds between the phosphate groups of ATP’s tail can be broken by ____ reactions
hydrolysis
List the three main kinds of work of ATP.

1. Chemical work such as driving endergonic reactions such as the synthesis of polymers from monomers
2. Transport work such as pumping substances across membranes against the direction of spontaneous movement.
3. Mechanical work such as beating of cilia, contraction of muscle cells, and movement of chromosomes.

Chemical agent that accelerates a reaction without being permanently changed in the process, so it can be used over and over.

Catalyst
Biological catalysts, which are usually proteins.
Enzymes
Enzymes catalyze reactions by lowering the _____

EA barrier

The substance an enzyme acts on and makes more reactive.
Substrate
Change in the shape of an enzyme's active site, which is induced by the substrate.
Induced fit
Restricted region of an enzyme molecule which binds to the substrate.
Active site

List the 4 mechanisms that enzymes use to lower activation energy and speed a reaction

1. orients substrates
2. put stress on bonds that must be broken, making it easier to reach the transition state.
3. favorable microenvironment for a specific reaction.
4. Enzymes may even bind covalently to substrate

List the environmental factors that can effect enzyme rate.

1.Temperature
2.pH

Small non-protein molecules that are required for proper enzyme catalysis.

Cofactors
a non-protein organic cofactor.
Coenzyme
The protein portion of an enzyme.
Apoenzyme
The apoenzyme plus its coenzyme or cofactor.
Holoenzyme

molecules that bind to enzymes and prevent enzymes from catalyzing reactions.

Inhibitors

Chemicals that resemble an enzyme's normal substrate and compete with it for the active site.

Competitive inhibitors

Enzyme inhibitors that do not enter the enzyme's active site, but bind to another part of the enzyme molecule

Noncompetitive inhibitors
Enzymes are proteins encoded by ___
genes
Mutations (changes) in genes lead to changes in ____ of an enzyme
amino acid composition
Altered amino acids in enzymes may alter their shape and affect ______.
substrate specificity
Specific receptor site on some part of the enzyme molecule other than the active site.
Allosteric site
stabilizes the active form of the enzyme
Activators
stabilizes the inactive form of the enzyme
Inhibitor
Regulation of a metabolic pathway by its end product, which inhibits an enzyme within the pathway.
Feedback inhibition

How can the localization of enzymes within a cell help order metabolism

1.Metabolic pathway assembled in a multienzyme complex
2.Fixed locations within the cell as structural components of membranes
3.In solution, within an organelle with its own internal microenvironment
Endergonic or exergonic?
Endergonic or exergonic?
endergonic
Endergonic or exergonic?

Endergonic or exergonic?

exergonic
spontaneous or non-spontaneous?

spontaneous or non-spontaneous?

non-spontaneous
spontaneous or non-spontaneous?
spontaneous or non-spontaneous?
spontaneous
Substrates are ___energy and products are ____ energy.

Substrates are ___energy and products are ____ energy.

low
high
Substrates are ___energy and products are ____ energy.

Substrates are ___energy and products are ____ energy.

high
low
negative or positive ΔG?

negative or positive ΔG?

positive
negative or positive ΔG?
negative or positive ΔG?
negative
Does this reaction absorb or release energy (net)?
Does this reaction absorb or release energy (net)?
absorb
Does this reaction absorb or release energy (net)?
Does this reaction absorb or release energy (net)?
release
What are A-D?

What are the sections of the graphs labeled A-D?

A free energy of substrate
B free energy of product
C activation energy
D free energy