Golden Oldies
A signaling molecule.
What is a ligand?
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
The hydrolysis of ATP is this type of reaction.
Hint: -gonic
What is an exergonic reaction?
What is a nonsense mutation?
This energy is always decreasing in the universe
What is free energy?
Process of making ATP from ADP.
What is phosphorylation?
This protein builds the new DNA strand complementary to the old one.
What is the DNA polymerase?
Lowering activation energy does this to the reaction.
What is the increase in the rate of reaction?
Output of cellular respiration.
What is carbon dioxide, water, and ATP?
When this complex is active, it phosphorylates target proteins and activates them, and these proteins are involved in gene regulation, which is important for moving through the cell cycle.
What is the cyclin-CDK complex?
This binding site causes the enzyme to change shape when a substrate binds to it.
What is an allosteric binding site?
Net ATP payoff for glycolysis.
What are 2 ATP molecules?
(1) This carries out RNA splicing to remove (2) this and join (3).
1. What is a spliceosome?
2. What are introns?
3. What are exons?
The sodium-potassium pump transports ions against their concentration gradient using ATP. Sodium is transported out of the cell, while potassium is transported into the cell. This is a thermodynamically unfavorable process that requires energy to force the ions across the membrane. (1) Gibbs free energy change is (+/-). (2) The type of reaction based on the Gibbs free energy change.
(1) What is positive?
(2) What is an endergonic reaction?
The final electron acceptor in cellular respiration.
What is oxygen?