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What is Metabolism?
The collection of chemical reactions that occur in an organism.
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What is potential?
This type of energy is related to the location or structure of matter.
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What is Adenosine triphosphate?
ATP
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What is the first law of thermodynamics.
Energy can not be created, nor destroyed, only transformed
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What is free energy?
Box number 1.
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What is the ability to do work?
Energy
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What is kinetic?
This type of energy is associated with motion.
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What is exergonic?
ΔG
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What is a competitive inhibitor?
This binds to the active site of an enzyme.
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What is progress of the reaction?
Box number 2
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What are Enzymes?
A chemical agent that increases the speed of a reaction, without being consumed by said reaction.
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What is entropy?
The disorder in the universe.
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What is endergonic?
-ΔG
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What is free energy?
A living systems _________ can do work under cellular conditions
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What are the products?
Box number 3.
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What is a substrate?
The reactant on which an enzyme works.
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What is the activation energy?
The energy necessary to break the bonds of the reactants in a chemical reaction.
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What is activation energy?
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What is the second law of thermodynamics.
Processes requiring no outside input of energy increase the entropy in the universe.
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What is the activation energy without enzyme?
Box number 4.
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What is energy coupling?
The use of energy released from an exergonic reaction to drive an endergonic reaction.
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What is an active site?
The specific region of an enzyme that binds the substrate and forms the pocket in which the catalysis occurs.
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What is a phosphate group?
What are the (P)s in this structure?
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What is allosteric regulation.
Regulatory molecules binding to specific sites and affecting the shape and function of an enzyme.
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What is the overall energy released during the reaction?
Box number 5.
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