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Biochemistry Study Skills: Understanding Enzymes and Thermodynamics

Enhance your biochemistry knowledge with insights on enzymes and thermodynamics. Learn about activation energy, catalysts, and essential reactions in living organisms. Dive into phenylketonuria and more!

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Biochemistry Study Skills: Understanding Enzymes and Thermodynamics

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  1. Biochemistry Study Skills Dhruval, Sara, Dionicy, Jen, Bryan

  2. Lecture 1 • Thermodynamics is the goal of living things to control which reactions happen and how fast they happen.

  3. Lecture 2 • Activation energy determines the rate of reaction; if activation energy is low, molecules need less energy to form products, and thus the rate of reaction will be higher. • Catalysts lower the activation energy • facilitates the reactions so reactants are more likely to collide and interact.

  4. Lecture 3 • Catalysts that are made of proteins are called enzymes. These can be reused due to the fact that they are not altered by reactions they facilitate. • Phenylketonuria (PKU)

  5. Overall • Thermodynamics is the goal of living things to control which reactions happen and how fast they happen.

  6. Questions • For unfavored reactions, what type of energy and how much of it will be needed to cause the unfavored reaction? • How do biological systems make essential non-spontaneous reactions occur if they are unfavored? • Can catalysts be used for reverse reactions? • What classifies as an enzyme? The structure and formation or its job?

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