BIOL 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Activation Energy, G1 Phase, Cytokinesis

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The direction of a reaction can be predicted if g is known, but not the rate of the reaction. Many exergonic reactions occur immeasurably slow (which can be good) Exergonic reactions proceed only after the addition of a small amount of energy, the activation energy. In a chemical reaction, ea is the energy needed to put molecules into a transition state. Catalysis: a catalyst is any substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being consumed (lowers ea, most biological catalysts are proteins called enzymes. Exergonic reactions are often initiated by addition of heat, increases ke, but this is not possible for biological systems. Substrates bind to a particular site on the enzyme surface called the active site, where catalysis takes place. Enzymes catalyze reactions by using one or more of: orientation substrates. Inducing strain in the substrates: adding charges to substrates.

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