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| The reactant an enzyme acts on. |
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| Capacity to cause change. |
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| The totality of an organism's chemical reactions. |
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| Begins with a specific molecule, which is then altered in a series of defined steps, resulting in a certain product. |
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| Metabolic pathway that release energy by breaking down complex molecules to simpler compounds. |
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| Consume energy to build complicated molecules from simpler ones. |
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| The study of how energy flows through living organisms. |
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| Energy associated with an object's motion. |
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| Kinetic energy associated with the random movement of atoms or molecules. |
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| Energy an object possesses due to its location or structure. |
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| Potential energy available for release energy by breaking down complex molecules. |
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| The study of energy transformations that occur in a collection of matter |
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| First law of thermodynamics |
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| Energy can not be created or destroyed; It can be transferred and transformed. |
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| Second Law of Thermodynamics |
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| Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the world. |
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| A process that can occur without an input of energy. |
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| Portion of a system's energy that can perform work when temperature and pressure are uniform throughout the system, as in a living cell. |
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| Proceeds with a net release of free energy (negative delta G). |
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| Absorbs free energy from its surroundings (positive delta G). |
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| The use of an exergonic process to drive an endergonic one. |
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| ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) |
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| .... its ATP. It makes things happen? Energy. |
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| Phosphorylated Intermediate |
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| The recipient with the phosphate group covalently bonded to it. |
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| A macromolecule that acts as a catalyst, speeding up a reaction. |
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| The initial investment of energy for starting a reaction. |
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| Formed when an enzyme binds to its substrate. |
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| A restricted region of the enzyme molecule that binds to the substrate. |
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| The change in shape making the active site fit more snugly around the substrate. |
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| Nonprotein helpers required by many enzymes for catalytic activity. |
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| An organic molecule cofactor. |
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| Binds to the active site, blocking substrates from entering. |
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| Noncompetitive Inhibitors |
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| Impede enzymatic reactions by binding to another part of the enzyme. |
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| Any case in which a protein's function at one site is affected by the binding of a regulatory molecule to a separate site. |
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| A kind of allosteric activation where a substrate molecule binding to one active site in a multisubunit enzyme triggers a shape change, increasing catalytic activity at the other active sites. |
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| A metabolic pathway is siwtched off by the inhibitory binding of its end product to an enzyme that acts early in the pathway. |
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