Reference no: EM132391147

1. Define Metabolism

2. Compare and contrast catabolic and anabolic reactions, how do they work together?

3. Differentiate between Autotrophs, heterotrophs, photautotrophs, organotrophs, lithotrophs, chemotrophs.

4. Be familiar with the major high energy intermediates (electron carriers) FAD, NAD, NADP

5. Review ATP

6. Define enzymes. What are they and how do they work?

7. How are enzymes usually named?

8. What factors typically influence enzymatic activity and how?

9. Differentiate between exergonic and endergonic reactions.

10. What is a substrate and a product, explain how a product can instantly become a substrate

11. Know these enzyme topics: active site, induced fit, cofactors, competitive inhibitors, allosteric site feedback inhibition

12. Why does nick say that enzymatic reactions are reversible?

13. How do cells generate ATP. Under what conditions is the most ATP generated

14. Be able to describe the general processes of

a. Carbohydrate catabolism

b. Glycolysis

c. Cellular respiration

d. The chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP generation

e. Fermentation (homolactic and heterolactic)

f. Lipid and protein catabolism

g. Hint, how much energy is produced, what are the major points of entry and exit.

15. How are bacteria and yeast identified by the action of their enzymes

16. How are lipids and proteins catabolized.

17. Roughly describe the biosynthetic pathway

18. Explain how photosynthesis works.

a. Where does oxygen and hyrdogens come from

b. Where is the gradient made that drives ATP synthesis

19. Explain what Biogeochemical cycles are

20. BE aware of how the carbon cycle works

21. Differentiate between something like the phosphorus cycle and the carbon cycle? (hing gass and solid distribution)

22. Be aware of alternates to the primary metabolic pathway