Biology 1202B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Catabolism, Glutamine, Cellular Respiration

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We can define energy as the capacity to do work: move objects against an opposing force, chemical gradient, gravity, friction or moving a chemical reaction toward completion. Energy can be transformed between one form and another: transformation is inefficient. Energy possessed by an object because it is in motion: boulder rolling down a hill, photon of light or electricity. Stored energy: due to location or chemical structure, energy of position (position of electrons) Energy can not be created or destroyed, only converted to other forms: principle of the conservation of energy. The amount of energy in the universe is constant. The total disorder (entropy) of a system and its surroundings will increase: energy will always become more spread out. Energy transfer in biochemical reaction is also efficient: a certain % of the energy is lost as entropy, the energy that remains is free energy and available to do biological work. January 18, 2017: g has 2 components.

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