BIOCHEM 2EE3 Lecture Notes - Antoine Lavoisier, Metabolic Pathway, Cellular Respiration

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Metabolism: highly integrated cell activity, involving hundreds of enzyme-catalyzed reactions from which biomolecules are produced, maintained and destroyed, and by which energy is obtained and used. Variations in metabolic reactions are mainly due to differences in free energy sources. Catabolism: sum of reactions of degradation in which nutrients and self biomolecules are broken down to produce energy and monomers that are necessary for the synthesis of biopolymers synthesized from smaller components. Anabolism: sum of reactions of biosynthesis in which biological molecules are. Living organisms are divided based on how they obtain free energy and carbon. Autotrophs: use co2 from atmosphere as sole source of carbon. Chemolithotrophs obtain free energy through the oxidation of inorganic componunds. Vitalism: old doctrine, now rejected, that claims that living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain a non-physical component or are governed by different principles than inanimate objects.

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