CHEM 3050 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Enzyme, Adenosine Triphosphate, Pyruvic Acid
20 Nov 2018
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Living things need to harness energy from the environment in order to carry out the reactions required for life. The focus of biochemistry and metabolism can be broken down to three metabolic processes every cell goes through: glycolysis the preferred method of energy harnessing; it is the breakdown of glucose to pyruvate. By these processes, glucose can be harvested for more than just energy use; it can be harnessed for use in structural situations (molecular interactions, cellular structure, etc) and used to make other important biomolecules (nucleic acids, glycogen, etc) Even still sugar/glucose is the most direct/efficient input into the energetics metabolic pathway. Directly breaking the sugar up; use d-glucose, 2 nad+(oxidized) & 2 adp. 2 pyruvate, 2 nadh (reduced) & 2 atp in an overall favourable process. There are other pathways called feeder pathways that feed into glycolysis from other energy sources either by producing glucose or producing intermediates in glycolysis. Takes place by ten reactions in 2 phases.
