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Biology 311C

In living organisms, energy is harnessed, utilized, and converted through intricate biochemical processes. Respiration plays a key role in this, where organic compounds like glucose are broken down in the presence of oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water, and energy.

Biology 311C

Biology 311C

BIG IDEA II: ENERGY IS STORED, USED AND TRANSFORMED IN LIVING SYSTEMS

9A: Respiration
Controlled release of energy for synthesis of ATP via the Electron Transport Chain
Carbohydrates, fats, and protetins can all be processed and consumed as fuel, although Glucose is the fuel that cells most often use.

Glucose becomes oxidized and Oxygen becomes reduced

Cellular respiration is the catabolic pathways of aerobic and anaerobic respiration, which break down organic molecules and use an electron transport chain for the production of ATP.

Anaerobic involves respiration without oxygen

Aerobic respiration involves oxygen being consumed as a reactant along with organic fuel in respiration.

Organic Compounds + Oxygen => Carbon Dioxide + Water + Energy
8D: Metabolism
Allosteric regulation is the term used to describe any case in which a protein's function at one site is affected by the binding of a regulatory molecule to a separate site.

May resulte in either inhibition or stimulation of an enzyme's activity.

The binding of of an inhibitor stabilizes the inactive form of the enzyme.

The binding of an activator to a regulatory site stabilizes the shape of an allosteric enzyme that has functional actives sites.

Substrates bind to active site of an enzyme causing catalysis to occur.
An enzyme is a macromolecule that acts as a catalyst, a chemical agent that speeds up a reaction without being consumed by the reaction.

Without regulation by enzymes, chemical traffic through the metabolism would become terribly congested because many chemical reactions take a long time.

Enzymes speed up metabolic reactions by lowering energy barriers

An enzyme catalyzes a reaction by lowering the activation energy barrier, enabling the reactant molecules to absorb enough energy to reach the transition state even at moderate temperatures.

An enzyme cannot change the free energy for a reaction; it cannot make an endergonic reaction exergonic.

Because enzymes are very specific for the reactions they catalyze, they determine which chemical processes will be going on in the cell at any particular time.

Enzymes can only hasten reactions that would eventually occur anyway.

BIG IDEA III: GENETIC INFORMATION IS TRANSMITTED THROUGH GENERATIONS AND EXPRESSED IN A REGULATED MANNER.

12B: Transcription and Translation
DNA Sequences for Transcription

TATA Box recognized by transcription factors

Terminator sequence signals the end of transcription

Promoter sequence tells RNA Pol where to attach and initiate transcription

Proteins for Transcription

Transcription Factors mediate the binding of RNA polymerase and the initiation of transcription

Enzymes for Transcription

RNA Polymerase pries two strands of DNA apart and joins together RNA nucleotides complementary to the DNA template strand, elongating the RNA polynucleotide.

11D: DNA Structure and Replication
Eukarytoes

occurs in nucleus

Multiple Origins of replication

Linear DNA

Prokaryotes

Replication occurs in cytoplasm

One origin of replication

Have circular DNA

Enzymes in Repiication

Ligase joins the sugar phosphate back bones of Okazaki fragments into a continuous DNA strand

Primase synthesises primer

SSBs bond keep DNA strands from re-pairing

Topoisomerase relieves helix strain

DNA Polymerase forms a polymer of DNA in the 5'-3' direction

DNA Polymerase makes polymer of DNA and initiates DNA synthesis by adding nucleotides to a prexisting chain

Helicase separates the two strands of DNA.

BIG IDEA I: STRUCTURE RELATES TO FUNCTION

2B: Chemistry for Biology
Molecules that have non-polar covalent bonds do not form hydrogen bonds, but any compound that has polar covalent bonds can form a hydrogen bond.

This is because non-polar bonds cannot interact whereas polar bonds can due to differences in charges

A hydrogen bond is formed when the positive end of one molecule is attracted to the negative end of another.

The formation of hydrogen bonds is important in biological systems because the bonds stabilize and determine the structure and shape of large macromolecules such as nucleic acids and proteins.

3A: Biological Molecules
Nucleic Acids

Deoxyribose makes it hyphilic since they are polar and can interact with water

Polynucleotides are macromolecules that exist as polymers

Polymers made up of monomers called nucleotides

nucleotides are monomers that each polynucleotide consists of

Protein

Biologically functional molecule that consists of one or more polypeptides, each folded and coiled into a specific three - dimensional structure

Unbranched polymers constructed from the same set of 20 amino acids

Polymers of amino acids are called polypeptides

An amino acid is an organic molecule posessing both an amino group and a carboxyl group.

Lipids

Most biologically important

Steroids

Are characterized by a carbon skeleton consisting of four fused rings

Phospholipids

The two ends of phospholipids are different towards water.

The phosphate group and its attachments from a hydrophilic head

Hydrophobic hydrocarbon tails are excluded from water

are essential for cells because they make up cell membranes

Fats

The relatively nonpolar C-H bonds in hydrocarbon chains of fatty acids are the reason fats are hydrophillic

Constructed from 2 kinds of smaller molecules

Fatty Acid - has a long carbon skeleton, usually 16 or 18 carbon atoms in length

Glyceral - an alcohol; each of its 3 carbon bears a hydroxyl group

Consist mostly of hydrocarbon regions

Hydrophobic behavior is based on their molecular structure

Group together because they mix poorly if at all with water

Not big enough to be considered macromolecules

One class of large biological molecules that doesn't include polymers.

Carbohydrates

Polymers such as starch or cellulose form colloidal dispersions or are insoluble.

Carbohydrates are hydrophilic; the smaller carbo- hydrates, such as milk sugar and table sugar, are soluble in aqueous solution

Glucose is the most common monosaccharide and is of central importance in the chemistry of life

Dissaccharides or double sugars joined by glycosidic linkage

Simplest are monosaccharides/monomers or simple sugars

Serve as fuel and building material: include both sugars and polymers of sugars.

Polysacharrides as Macromolecules