BIOLOGY 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bioluminescence, Kinetic Energy, Cellular Respiration
22 Jan 2018
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Jan 30, 2017: metabolic pathways, thermodynamics, free energy. -watch for stuff about phagocytosis, etc--: phagocytosis, overview: the energy of life. Living cell= mini factory where 1000s of reactions occur. Cell extracts energy and applies energy to perform work. Some organisms convert energy to light (bioluminescence: metabolism thermodynamics) Organism"s metabolism transforms matter and energy (subject to the laws of. Emergent property of life that arises from interactions between molecules within the cell. Metabolomics: study of all small molecules aka metabolites in a cell. Feres to fact that there a buch of interesting molecules beign made during metabolism we have tools to track and identify: organization of the chemistry of life into metabolic pathways. Metabolic pathway begins with a specific molecule and ends with a product. Each step is catalyzed by a specific enzyme. Linking together a molecule that strarts off inone state, gets converted in a series of steps into something else.
