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| First Law of Thermodynamics |
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Energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
Deals with quantity of energy. |
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| Capacity to do work because of the location and arrangement |
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- equals to 1000 calorie
- energy required to heat 1000 grams of water
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| Secoond Law of Thermodynamics |
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| Energy tend to flow from high to low concentration- so the cost of concentrating it in one area comes at a greater cost of energy dispersal or dilution somewhere else |
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| measure of how much and how far a concentrated form of energy has been dispersed after an energy cange |
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| What safeguars molecules? |
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- Reactants
- Intermediates
- Products
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- Reactants- starting substances
- Intermediates- substances formed before a reaction ends
- Products- final substance
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| ATP and other energy carriers |
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- Catalyst
- speeds up reaction
- lowers activation energy
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| Metal ions or coenzymes that helps enzymes by receieving and giving electrons, atoms, and functional group |
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| minimum amount of energy that can get the reaction to the point that it will run on its own |
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| meaning "energy in" it is a reaction that requires net input of energy |
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| meaning "energy out" it is a reaction that has a net release of energy |
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| What is the energy carrier for all metabolic reaction? |
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- five carbon sugar (glucose)
- base adenine
- three phosphate group
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| How does enzymes lower activation energy? |
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| compared with surrounding environment, they offer a stable microenvironment, more favorable for reaction |
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| two or more molecules become covalently bound into a larger molecule |
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| What does "allo" and "steric" mean |
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allo- other steric- structure |
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| requires a net input of energy to produce glucose and starch |
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| "anabolic" its also endergonic meaning it requires energy |
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| "catabolic" and also exergonic it releases energy |
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| Main degradative pathway in the biosphere |
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| transduces chemical bond energy of certain molecules into light energy |
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| emitted light in organisms |
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| Life's primary source of energy |
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| requires a net input of energy to produce glucose and starch |
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| "anabolic" its also endergonic meaning it requires energy |
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| "catabolic" and also exergonic it releases energy |
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| Main degradative pathway in the biosphere |
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| transduces chemical bond energy of certain molecules into light energy |
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| emitted light in organisms |
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| Life's primary source of energy |
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