AP Biology Chapter 8 Flashcards
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| 7271401313 | catabolic pathways | release energy by breaking down complex molecules |  | 0 |
| 7271401314 | anabolic pathways | consume energy to build complicated molecules |  | 1 |
| 7278948454 | bioenergetics | study of how energy flows through living organisms | 2 | |
| 7278949932 | energy | capacity to cause change |  | 3 |
| 7278951369 | kinetic energy | energy associated with relative motion of objects |  | 4 |
| 7278953624 | thermal energy | energy associated with random movement of atoms or molecules | 5 | |
| 7278955911 | potential energy | energy that matter possesses because of its location or structure | 6 | |
| 7278959013 | chemical energy | refers to the potential energy available for release in a reaction |  | 7 |
| 7278965282 | entropy | measure of disorder or randomness is delta S |  | 8 |
| 7278967788 | spontaneous process | process that can occur without input of energy |  | 9 |
| 7278969521 | free energy | portion of a system's energy that can perform work |  | 10 |
| 7278972703 | exergonic reaction | net release of free energy |  | 11 |
| 7278974477 | endergonic reaction | absorbs free energy |  | 12 |
| 7278976825 | energy coupling | the use of exergonic process to drive an endergonic one |  | 13 |
| 7278983473 | phosphorylated intermediate | recipient in hydrolysis of ATP |  | 14 |
| 7278985578 | enzyme | macromolecule speeding up reaction |  | 15 |
| 7278988050 | catalyst | chemical agent speeding up reaction |  | 16 |
| 7278989525 | activation energy | energy required for starting a reaction |  | 17 |
| 7278991621 | substrate | reactant an enzyme acts on |  | 18 |
| 7278994859 | active site | region of enzyme bonding to substrate |  | 19 |
| 7278996529 | induced fit | brings chemical groups of the active site into positions that enhance their ability to catalyze the reaction |  | 20 |
| 7278999816 | cofactors | nonprotein helpers for catalytic activity (inorganic) |  | 21 |
| 7279002760 | coenzyme | organic cofactor |  | 22 |
| 7279005432 | noncompetitive inhibitors | impede enzymatic reactions by bonding to another part of the enzyme |  | 23 |
| 7279009191 | allosteric regulation | protein's function at one site is affected by the binding of a regulatory molecule to a separate site |  | 24 |
| 7279015350 | cooperativity | mechanism that amplifies the response of enzymes to substrates A form of allosteric regulation that can amplify enzyme activity |  | 25 |
| 7279019839 | feedback inhibition | when metabolic pathway is switched off by the inhibitory binding of its end product to an enzyme that acts early in the pathway |  | 26 |