Enzymes aid the speed of metabolism by ___________.
What is lowering the activation energy?
These are the three steps to cell communication.
What are reception, transduction, cell response.
The two metabolic pathways and their specific functions.
What are the catabolic and anabolic pathways? Catabolic is the breakdown pathway and anabolic consumes energy to build complicated molecules from simpler ones.
This word refers to "programmed cell death".
What is apoptosis?
Amino acids are made up of these three groups.
What are the carboxyl group, amine group, and a variable (R) group?
Transduction is often accomplished through a phosphorylation cascade that activates and inactivates this type of enzyme.
What is a "kinase"?
The water potential inside of a bag is Ψs -6.23 bar & Ψp 0
The water potential outside of the bag is Ψs -3.25 bar & Ψp 0
This is the direction in which water will flow.
What is into the bag?
The two laws of thermodynamics.
What is the first law that says energy can be transferred and transformed but never created or destroyed and the second that says every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe?
This type of cell surface receptor is the most common in human cells, and is involved in signaling pathways for smell, taste, and cell growth.
What is a G-Protein Coupled Receptor?
Draw a carboxyl group.
R-C=0-OH
These two small molecules are often used as secondary messengers in transduction?
What are cyclic AMP and Ca2+?
Name the levels of protein structure and their roles.
What are primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary? Primary is sequence of amino acids. Secondary is the coils and folds of polypeptide chains. Tertiary is the overall shape of a polypeptide based on interactions between side chains of various amino acids. Quaternary is the overall protein sturcture that results from the aggregation of the polypeptide subunits.