Metabolism Flashcards
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_______- Sum of all chemical reactions in an organism
Metabolism
Metabolism:
________- a series of interconnected biochemical reactions that convert a substrate molecule or molecules, step-by-step, through a series of metabolic intermediates, eventually yielding a final product or products.
Metabolic pathway
What are the two major types of metabolic pathways?
Anabolic pathways
catabolic pathways
What type of metabolic pathway is this?
______- small molecules assemble into large ones. o Energy is required. o Examples: Photosynthesis (plants), DNA replication, transcription, translation.
Anabolic pathways
What type of metabolic pathway is this?
_________- large molecules break into small ones. o Energy is released. o Example: Glucose catabolism C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + 673 kcal
Catabolic pathways
_______- potential to do work or heat on object
Energy
______- amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of H2O 1 °C
calorie
What is the first law of Thermodynamics?
Energy may transfer from place to place or transform into different forms, but energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the second law of Thermodynamics
Energy transfer or transformation always increases the entropy (disorder) of the universe.
_______- is the energy transfer from a chemical reaction that is available to do work
Gibb’s Free Energy
_______- products have less free energy than the reactants, because they gave off some free energy during the reaction.
* These reactions form catabolic pathways.
Exergonic reaction
______- nonspontaneous reactions that require energy input to produce products have more free energy than the reactants. § These reactions form anabolic pathways
Endergonic reaction
How humans obtain energy:…..
The sun is the ultimate source of the energy that powers ________
life
How humans obtain energy:…..
Plants perform photosynthesis converting solar energy to chemical energy stored in ________ between atoms in organic molecules
Covalent bonds
How humans obtain energy:…..
Humans and other animals obtain energy by eating food that contains ________
organic molecules
_________ of organic molecules releases energy that a can be used for work.
Catabolism
When glucose is broken down some of the energy released can be used to drive the following anabolic reaction: ADP + Pi → ______
ATP
_______- is an organelle that contains the enzyme
Mitochondria
_______-that produces large amounts of ATP at the end of a metabolic pathway known as aerobic cellular respiration
ATP synthase
Aerobic cellular respiration requires 14)_________(a molecule that composes about 21% of the gas in the atmosphere) and
produces the waste 15)________ (the air you breathe out has more of this gas than the air that you breathe in).
14) O_2
15) CO_2
Energy stored in ATP will be used by the cell for ______.
biological work
Many enzymes perform hydrolysis of ATP (producing _______) and use the energy. released for biological work:
ADP + Pi
Synthesis of macromolecule polymers.
* Example: _______ is the small organelle composed of rRNA and protein that use ATP to fuel protein synthesis (translation).
Ribosome
Active transport of chemicals in and out of cells.
*Example: ____________ use ATP to transport sodium out of the cytoplasm and potassium into the cytoplasm.
Sodium potassium pump
NA+/K pump