Biology 1002B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Endergonic Reaction, Hyperthermophile, Catalytic Cycle

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First law of thermodynamics: absorption of photons in chlorophyll converted into an excited state, can oxidize chlorophyll, photoisomerization in eye and in chlorophyll. Why housekeeping genes are always on always breaking down. Glucose: don"t get all of the energy that we should from it: some of the energy is not accessible to us because it is lost to the environment. Free energy that is available is product of how many calories (energy) is in glucose, have to subtract the loss of heat (entropy steals some of the energy) Free energy = energy content of the food entropy. Whether a reaction occurs or not depends on the sign of g. Reactions tend to be spontaneous (-g) when exergonic: spontaneous: doesn"t require any energy (a will convert to b without any help) Both enthalpy and entropy independently contribute to the sign of the change in g (+/-)

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