Intro to Biochemistry

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Decks in this class (28)

1 - Intro to Biochem
What are the six principle elemen...,
Alcohol significance,
Aldehyde significance
33  cards
2- Living Cells
3 parts of signal transduction,
What is the cell wall composed of,
What is the nucleoid
16  cards
3 - Water, pH, pK and buffers
4 important properties of water,
What type of geometry does water ...,
Why is water a dipole why type of...
29  cards
4 and 5 - Bioenergetics and ATP
Enthalpy entropy and free energy ...,
First law of thermodynamics,
Second law of thermodynamics
28  cards
6 - Biological Oxidation and Reduction
If e reduction potential is more ...,
Living organisms use redox coenzy...,
What is the biochemical reference...
9  cards
7 and 8A Amino acids and Protein Secondary Structure
How many amino acids do peptides ...,
How many amino acids do polypepti...,
What are zwitterions
32  cards
8B and 9A - Peptides and Tertiary Structures
What is glutathione,
What is vasopressin,
What is oxytocin
35  cards
9B and 10 - Tertiary Structure and Protein Technology
What are three contributors to th...,
Why are proteins susceptible to l...,
What is protein renaturation
16  cards
11 - Hemoglobin Structure and Function
What is the most common biologica...,
What is the prosthetic group on m...,
What is the general structure of ...
30  cards
12 and 13 Enzymes and their mechanisms
What does a catalyst do,
What are two ways for improving t...,
Why do living systems use catalys...
72  cards
14 - Carbohydrates
What is the most abundant biomole...,
What are four cellular functions ...,
Carbohydrates are a direct link b...
19  cards
15 and 16 - Carbohydrates and nucleic acids
After several hours an alkaline s...,
What does reduction of aldehyde a...,
What are three important monosacc...
76  cards
17 - Introduction to Metabolism
What is the definition of metabolism,
What are xenobiotics,
What happens to energy in an ende...
39  cards
18 - Glycolysis
What is glycolysis in its simples...,
What two things are needed for gl...,
What is glycogenolysis
35  cards
19 - Regulation of Glycolysis
What are the three potential regu...,
What is free energy like during g...,
Why is hexokinase not the committ...
27  cards
20 - Glycogen Metabolism & Hormonal Control of Glucose Metabolism
What is glycogen,
What is glycogen synthesized from,
What type of bonds in glycogen ar...
19  cards
21 - Citric Acid Cycle
What is the final part of the oxi...,
True or false all nutrients can s...,
The citric acid cycle oxidizes ac...
89  cards
22 - Gluconeogenesis
What is gluconeogenesis,
When does gluconeogenesis happen ...,
What stoichiometrically goes into...
52  cards
23 - Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Introduction to Lipids
What is the pentose phosphate pat...,
What is nadph needed for 2,
What is the main source for nadph...
76  cards
24 - Lipid Utilization and Transport
What is a monolayer,
What is a bilayer vesicle,
What is a lysophospholipid
74  cards
25 - Fat Catabolism
What do adipocytes do when the bo...,
What two lipases are involved in ...,
What activates atgl adipose trigl...
41  cards
26 - Fat and fatty acid Synthesis
Where does biosynthesis of triacy...,
What are triacylglycerols synthes...,
What are sources for glycerol 3 p...
54  cards
27 - Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation
Nadh and fadh2 are produced by wh...,
What is the final acceptor of the...,
What happens in oxidative phospho...
33  cards
28 - Photosynthesis: Light Reactions and Dark Reactions
What is the chemical equation for...,
What 4 process do both photosynth...,
Where does photosynthesis occur
36  cards
29 - Amino Acid Metabolism
These are shitty shitty notes..
47  cards
30 and 31 - Nutrition and Hormones
What are three types of hormones ...,
What three broad functions that h...,
What do endocrine cells do
55  cards
32 - Integration and Regulation of Metabolism
What are two ways in which metabo...,
What two enzymes are regulated in...,
What three enzymes are regulated ...
68  cards
Protein Degradation and Vitamin D
What pathway is used for the degr...,
What does ubiquitination of a pro...,
How is ubiquitin activated
15  cards

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