BSC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate, Jmol, Hydrolysis

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The laws of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy. Energy- capacity to do work, or the capacity to change or more something. Thermodynamics- the study of the changes in energy that accompany events in the universe. Bioenergetics- the study of the energy transformations that occur in living organisms. Aka the law of conservation of energy: energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transferred or transformed. Transduction- conversion of energy from one form to another while being transferred. The universe can be divided into system and surroundings: the system is the subset of the universe under study often, for our purposes, a biochemical reaction, surroundings are everything that is not part of the system. Cells transfer energy from one chemical store to another and transduce energy from one form to another. For example, sunlight to chemical energy and chemical energy to mechanical energy. Chemical energy is stored in and transferred among various biological molecules: ex.

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