Biology 1002B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hexokinase, Bond Energy, Heterotroph

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Living things are open systems, share energy and matter with the surroundings. We are heterotrophs, when we bring in sugar, sugar is both the energy and the matter together (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)ri(cid:374)g i(cid:374) e(cid:374)erg(cid:455) separate fro(cid:373) (cid:373)atter. Photosynthetic organisms are different, they bring in energy from photons separately from the matter. It takes work to organize things an example of this would be protein synthesis, you use the ribosome and energy to convert this mixture of amino acids into something that has structure and is a protein. It takes the energy of about 1 atp to form 1 peptide bond. Everything in our cell breaks down (second law of thermodynamics) Proteins break down this movement from going from order to disorder is what we call entropy. Cells are not immune to this second law of thermodynamics. Breakdown of glucose, glucose is highly ordered. The energy is spread out over more molecules concentrated.

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