Information in the cell
Why is DNA considered an information system?
Because it stores, copies, and transmits genetic instructions needed for building and functioning living organisms.
All Living cells need what to survive?
Energy
What shape is an enzyme?
It is a Three dimensional globular structure.
What is ATP?
ATP is what provides energy for building molecules, trans-parting materials, and maintaining balance in the cell.
What is metabolism?
Metabolism is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in your body's cells that convert food and drink into energy for vital functions like breathing, circulating blood, and repairing cells, also creating building blocks for new tissues.
What works as cleaning for the cell?
Lysosome
Name three ways in which cells get energy from.
Chemical energy, glucose, and light energy!
Are Enzymes proteins?
YES!
What is the full word for ATP?
Adenosine Triphosphate
What are the two main types of metabolic reactions?
Catabolic and Anabolic
What works as transportation for the cell?
The cell membrane
Why do cells need energy?
It allows them to be able to grow, move, and reproduce.
What do Enzymes do?
They speed up chemical reactions of living things, without being used up.
Why is ATP important?
It is what provides energy for building molecules.
What is a Catabolic reaction?
It breaks molecules down and releases energy.
What is the boss of the cell?
The nucleus
Give me one example of energy in a cell.
Cellular respiration
Digestion, muscle building, nerve function, and toxin removal.
How does ATP release energy?
By breaking the bond between its second and third phosphate groups, releasing energy and forming ADP and an inorganic phosphate.
What is an anabolic reaction?
They build molecules and require properly.
Why must energy and information work together in a cell?
Because instructions alone won't work. Instructions without energy does not work.
Explain cellular respiration.
The vital process where cells break down glucose and oxygen to create usable energy in the form of ATP , releasing carbon dioxide and water as byproducts
What is the example commonly used to explain how Enzymes work.
Lock and key.
What does ATP get changed to?
ADP
Is metabolism a chemical process?
YES