The Energetics Of Life - Biochemistry Concepts and Connections | Biology+

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Biochemistry

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Set 1: Biochemistry and the Language of Chemistry

Set 2: The Chemical Foundation of Life: Weak Interactions in an Aqueous Environment

Set 3: The Energetics of Life

Set 4: Nucleic Acids

Set 5: Introduction to Proteins: the Primary Level of Protein Structure

Set 6: The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins

Set 7: Protein Function and Evolution

Set 8: Enzymes: Biological Catalysts

Set 9: Carbohydrates: Sugars, Saccharides, Glycans

Set 10: Lipids, Membranes, and Cellular Transport

Set 11: Chemical Logic of Metabolism

Set 12: Carbohydrate Metabolism: Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, Glycogen Metabolism, and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway

Set 13: The Citric Acid Cycle

Set 14: Electron Transport, Oxidative Phosphorylation, and Oxygen Metabolism

Set 15: Photosynthesis

Set 16: Lipid Metabolism

Set 17: Interorgan and Intracellular Coordination of Energy Metabolism in Vertebrates

Set 18: Amino Acid and Nitrogen Metabolism

Set 19: Nucleotide Metabolism

Set 20: Mechanisms of Signal Transduction

Set 21: Genes, Genomes, and Chromosomes

Set 22: DNA Replication

Set 23: DNA Repair, Recombination, and Rearrangement

Set 24: Transcription and Post-Transcriptional Processing

Set 25: Information Decoding: Translation and Post-Translational Protein Processing

Set 26: Regulation of Gene Expression

Set 3 The Energetics Of Life

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Set 3 The Energetics Of Life

(True False)

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The change in enthalpy (△H) for the complete oxidation of a fatty acid is different depending on whether it occurs via a biochemical pathway or combustion to CO2 and H2O.

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(True False)

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In a general redox reaction, the reductant becomes oxidized and the oxidant becomes reduced.

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(Short Answer)

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A thermodynamically unfavorable reaction can become favorable if the mass action ratio is ________ than the equilibrium mass action ratio.

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