front 1 Metabolism | back 1 The totality of an organism's chemical reactions Manages the material and energy resources of the cell |
front 2 Metabolic Pathway | back 2 A sequence of chemical reactions undergone by a compound or class of compounds in a living organism |
front 3 Catabolic Pathway | back 3 Breaking down complex molecules to simpler compounds |
front 4 Anabolic Pathway | back 4 Consume energy to build complicated molecules from simpler ones Sometimes called biosynthetic pathways |
front 5 Bioenergetics | back 5 The study of how energy flows through living organisms |
front 6 Energy | back 6 The capacity to cause change |
front 7 Kinetic Energy | back 7 Relative motion of objects |
front 8 Thermal energy | back 8 Kinetic energy associated with the random movement of atoms or molecules |
front 9 Heat | back 9 Thermal energy in transfer from one object to another |
front 10 Potential Energy | back 10 Energy that matter possesses because of its location or structure |
front 11 Chemical Energy | back 11 Potential energy available for release in a chemical reaction |
front 12 Thermodynamics | back 12 The study of the energy transformations that occur in a collection of matter |
front 13 The 1st Law of Thermodynamics | back 13 The energy of the universe is constant: Energy can be transferred and transformed, but it cannot be created or destroyed. Also known as the Principle of Conservation of Energy. |
front 14 The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics | back 14 Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy (disorder) of the universe. |
front 15 Entropy | back 15 Disorder or randomness |
front 16 Spontaneous Process | back 16 Process can proceed without requiring an input of energy |
front 17 Free Energy | back 17 The portion of a system’s energy that can perform work when temperature and pressure are uniform throughout the system |
front 18 Change in Free Energy Equation | back 18 ΔG = ΔH - TΔS |