BIOL 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading #4-6: Energy Landscape, Atp Hydrolysis, Metabolic Intermediate

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 241
• Professor: William Huddleston

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Ucalgary biology241 reading #4 activation energy and catalysts. Digestion & metabolism: step 1: sucrose molecules broken apart into glucose and fructose (simpler sugars, glu(cid:272)ose (cid:272)i(cid:396)(cid:272)ulates i(cid:374) (cid:271)lood @ high (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272). Take(cid:374) i(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:272)ells a(cid:374)d e(cid:374)e(cid:396)g(cid:455) is sto(cid:396)ed as pe i(cid:374) (cid:271)o(cid:374)ds of glu(cid:272)ose fo(cid:396) e(cid:374)e(cid:396)g(cid:455) fo(cid:396) (cid:272)ellula(cid:396) p(cid:396)o(cid:272)esses (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:396)ted i(cid:374)to pe sto(cid:396)ed i(cid:374) (cid:272)he(cid:373). Bonds of atp: liver stores and regulates glucose concentrations. Co(cid:373)p(cid:396)ess o(cid:396) st(cid:396)et(cid:272)h (cid:271)o(cid:374)ds (cid:373)o(cid:396)e easil(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:396)oke(cid:374) Summary: metabolism: series of bio-chem rxns occurring in a cell. Each step is catalyzed: there are many rxns and directions in which rxns can flow, presence of enzymes determines how fast a particular pathway will flow in biological organisms and what pathways show the most flow. Ucalgary biology241 reading #5: atp and coupled/connected reactions. Pe stored in chem. bonds of atp: change in g for standard vs. physiological is primarily due to how the physiological state has e(cid:374)e(cid:396)g(cid:455) sto(cid:396)ed i(cid:374) (cid:373)o(cid:396)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272).