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What is a catalyst?

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A chemical agent that speeds up reactions without being consumed

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2
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What is the structure of an enzyme

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Tertiary structure
Can be charged made of polar amino acids (R group)

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Endergonic

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Endothermic and non spontaneous G>0

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Exergonic

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Exothermic and spontaneous G<0

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What does induced fit mean?

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Chemical groups of active site mold to catalyze substrate

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How can an active site lower the activation energy?

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  • Orienting substrate properly
  • Straining substrate bonds
  • Favorable microenvironment
  • Covalently bonding
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7
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What is denaturation?

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Loss of conformational shape - typically not reversible

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What is a prosthetic group?

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A permanent non-protein enzyme helper

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9
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What is a cofactor?

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A temporary non-protein enzyme helper

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What is a coenzyme?

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A organic non-protein enzyme helper

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Describe competitive inhibition

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Binding to active site and competing with substrate

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Describe non competitive inhibition

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Binding to the allosteric site, causing shape change, making active site less effective

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What is metabolism?

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All the chemical reactions in an organism

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What is a catabolic pathway?

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Releases energy by BREAKING DOWN complex molecules into simpler compounds
ex Cellular respiration

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What is an anabolic pathway?

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Consumes energy to BUILD molecules
ex. Dehydration synthesis of amino acids to build a protein

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What is bioenergetics?

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The stud of how energy flows through living organisms

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What is spontaneous process?

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Happens without energy input, increases the entropy of the universe

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18
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What are paired reactions?

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One reaction feeding the energy requirements of another reaction
The entropy of an organism goes down, but the entropy of the universe goes up

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Are cells at equilibrium? Why?

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No. They are open systems with constant flow of energy and materials

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How do cells manage energy resources?

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Energy coupling ( use of exergonic reaction to drive an endergonic reaction) - mediated by ATP

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21
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How is energy from ATP released?

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When the terminal phosphate bond is broken by hydrolysis

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How does ATP drive endergonic reactions?

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By phosphorylation, transferring a phosphate group to some other molecule (the phosphorylated intermediate)

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23
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How does a cell regulate metabolic pathways?

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By switching on/off genes that ecode specific enzymes or regulation enzyme activity

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What is allosteric regulation?

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Occurs when a regulatory molecule binds to a protein at one end, affeting the function at another site (inhibits of stimulates the enzymes activity)

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What is cooperactivity?

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A form of allosteric regulation that amplifies enzyme activity

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26
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What is feedback inhibition?

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The end product of a metabolic pathway shutting down the pathway

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27
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What happens in light dependant reactions

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The chloroplasts trap solar energy and transform the energy to the reducing power of NADPH and the chemical energy of ATP

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What happens in light independant reactions?

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The energy of ATP and NADPH are used to reduce CO2 to synthesize glucose

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What is chemiosmosis?

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Energy store in a concentration gradient is used to generate ATP

30
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What are autotrophs

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Automatic feeder ( make their own food)

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What are heterotrophs?

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Organisms that obtain organic material from other organisms

32
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What is a stack of thylakoids called?

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Granum (plural = grana)

33
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What is the space inside a thylakoid called?

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Lumen

34
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Where are chloroplasts found?

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Mostly in the cells of the mesohpyll (interior leaf tissue)

35
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Are guard cells photsynthetic?

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Yes. They need glucose to power their cells to open/close

36
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What is reduced in photosynthesis?

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CO2 ——> C6H12O2 (gains e-)

37
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What is oxidized in photosynthesis?

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H2O2 ——-> 6O2

38
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NADPH and ATP have major what power?

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Reducing power so they give away e-

39
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What are photosynthetic pigments?

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They abosrb visible light
ex leaves are green because chlorophyll reflects green light

40
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What happens when a pigment absorbs light?

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it goes from a ground state to an excited (unstable) state
When the electron falls back to its ground state, photos are given off (afterglow/floresence)

41
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Describe a photosystem

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A photosystem consists of a reaction center complex (where chlorpohyll are found) surrounded by light harvesting complexes

42
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What is/does a light harvesting complex do?

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Pigment molecules bound to proteins
They transfer energy of photons to the reaction center

43
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What does a primary electron acceptor do?

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Accepts excited electrons and is reduced as a result

44
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Where does the light reaction occur?

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In the thylakoids

45
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What happens in the light reaction?

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  • Splits H2O
  • releases O2
  • reduces the electron acceptor NADP+ to NADPH
  • Generates ATP from ADP by phosphorylation
46
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What does the proton pump do?

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Pumps H+ into the thylakoid lumen, building up a concentration gradient

47
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What does the concentration gradient do?

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Flows out (passive transport) by moving through the transmembrane protein which spins and creates ATP

48
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How is NADPH produced?

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e- from photosystem 2 replaces e- photosystem 1 gave to carrier proteins, and the energy goes to producing NADPH

49
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What is the reaction center chlorophyll of ps1?

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P700

50
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What is the reaction center chlorophyll of ps2?

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P680

51
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What is the calvin benson cycle?

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The light independent reaction that occurs in the stroma of the chloroplasts
It reduces CO2 to Glucose

52
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What happens in the first phase of the calvin benson cycle?

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Carbon Fixation
Carbon enters as CO2 and leaves as G3P

53
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What is the second phase of the calvin benson cycle?

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Reduction
e- is gained by reducing a G3P (powered by oxidizing ATP)

54
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What is the third phase of the calvin benson cycle?

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Regeneration of CO2 acceptor (RUBP)

55
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What is aerobic cellular respiration?

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Requires a complete metabolic pathway by which electrons are transferred by high energy glucose to low energy O2
Energy is released a resynthesizes ATP from ADP and Pi

56
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What is anaerobic cellular respiration?

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Consumes thins other than O2
ex fermentation

57
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What is fermentation?

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The partial degradation of sugars without O2
It uses substrate level phosphorylation instead of ETC to generate ATP

58
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What is oxidized and what is reduced in cellular respiration?

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Glucose is oxidized, O2 is reduced

59
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What is Nad+’s function?

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Electron acceptor, but acts like an oxidizing agent during C.R

60
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What happens in the first stage of cellular respiration?

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Glycolysis - In cytosol
- Breaks glucose down into two molecules of pyruvate or pyruvic acid

61
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What happens in the second stage of cellular respiration?

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Citric Acid Cycle (kerbs cycle) - in Mitochondria
- Completes glucose breakdown

62
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What happens in the third stage of cellular respiration?

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Oxidative phosphorylation - in inner membrane of Mitochondria
- Most of ATP synthase (from e- transport chain and chemiosmosis)

63
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Describe the krebs cycle

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Completes the breakdown of glucose by oxidizing pyruvate.
generates 1 ATP, 3 NADH, 1 FADH2, and 2 CO2

64
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Describe oxidative phosphorylation

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Mitochondria transfer energy from chemical energy to ATP
Protons are pumped to inner membrane space and drive ATP synthase as they diffuse back to mitochondrial matrix

65
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How do NADH and FADH2 relate to the electron transport chain in cellular respiration/

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These electron carriers donate electrons to the ETC which powers ATP synthase via oxidative phosphorylation

66
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What is the inner mitochondrial membrane called?

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Cristae

67
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What is the final electron acceptor in cellular respiration?

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Oxygen

68
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What is proton motive force?

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H+ gradient (capacity to do work)

69
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What is the energy flow in cellular respiration?

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Glucose -> NADH -> ETC -> Proton Motive Force

70
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What type of fermentation doesnt release CO2?

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Lactic acid fermentation

71
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What are obligate Anaerobes?

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They carry out fermentation or anaerobic respiration and cannot survive in the presence of O2

72
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What are facultative anaerobes?

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Organisms that can survive by doing either type of cellular respiration
ex yeast

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