Metabolism Flashcards
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| 8922169349 | Metabolism = | chemical reactions that take place within living organism | 0 | |
| 8922169350 | Anabolism = | synthesis rxns to make macromolecules, require energy | 1 | |
| 8922169351 | Catabolism = | breakdown rxns, release energy | 2 | |
| 8922169357 | glucose broken down by | respiration or fermentation by glycolisis | 3 | |
| 8922169377 | Anabolic reactions involving amino acids include | -Protein synthesis- amino acids strung together to form polypeptide chain | 4 | |
| 8922187473 | metabolic pathaway | series of reactions in which product of one reaction is substrate for next | 5 | |
| 8922193510 | four basic macromolecules produce by anabolic reactions | carbohydrates (polysaccharides), nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids | 6 | |
| 8922197059 | four basic macromolecules involved in catabolic reactions | monosaccharides (glucose), amino acids, fatty acieds (i.e glycerol) and nucleotides | 7 | |
| 8922218677 | Fatty acids | long chains that are oxidized to acetyl-CoA | 8 | |
| 8922221960 | amino acids | building blocks of proteins |  | 9 |
| 8922224547 | protein | made up of amino acids that are linked together into a polypeptide chaing that folds into a particlue structure | 10 | |
| 8922226472 | peptide connectins | result of condensation reactions | 11 | |
| 8922227268 | primary structure | amino acid sequence | 12 | |
| 8922228015 | secondary structure | consists of sub-structures of alpha helices and beta sheets | 13 | |
| 8922229845 | alpha helices |  | 14 | |
| 8922231383 | beta sheets |  | 15 | |
| 8922233247 | tertiary structure | interaction between different elements of secondary structure to form a folded geometric shape | 16 | |
| 8922236811 | quartenary structure | interaction of one or more folded polypeptide chains to form multi-sub unit protein | 17 | |
| 8922238096 | chemiosmosis | process by which energy is made available for ADP to form ATP |  | 18 |
| 8922248723 | lipid | molecule that is hydrophobic or amphiphilic energy storage and structural functions ex. fats, triglycerides, steroids and waxes | 19 | |
| 8922252033 | Fats | long chains of fatty acids (three fatty acids bound to glycerol | 20 | |
| 8922254391 | fatty acid | chains with reduced carbon at one end and carboxylic acid group at the other |  | 21 |
| 8922260897 | glycerides | formed from fatty acids and glycerol (type of alcohol) | 22 |