BIOC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gibbs Free Energy, Citric Acid Cycle, Electron Transport Chain

• School: McGill University
• Department: Biochemistry
• Course: BIOC 212
• Professor: Jason Young

Document Summary

In and out: basics of metabolism (ch 2. Mboc (5th edition) pp. 65-88: the concept of equilibrium & gibb"s free energy, catalysis, energy carrier molecules: atp, nadh, nadph, glycolysis: an overview, krebs cycle: an overview, the mitochondria, the respiratory chain, and the fof1 atp synthetase. I- second law of thermodynamics: in isolated systems (or universe) the degree of disorder only increases. Entropy (or s) is a measure the disorder within a system. A positive entropy change spontaneously favors a reaction. In biological systems, this usually translates in release of heat to the sea" surrounding the system. Figure 2-37 molecular biology of the cell ( garland science 2008) Figure 2-38 molecular biology of the cell ( garland science 2008) Figure 2-36 molecular biology of the cell ( garland science 2008) Table 2-2 molecular biology of the cell ( garland science 2008) Figure 2-17 molecular biology of the cell ( garland science 2008)