BIS 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Half-Reaction, Oxidizing Agent, Cellular Respiration

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Introduction to metabolism (cid:886)/(cid:885)(cid:882)/(cid:883)(cid:890: metabolism in crudes the processes of breaking down food into smaller subunits and then reassembling them into larger molecules, energy from the enrolment transformed to cells for metabolic processes. Reduction-oxidation (redox) reactions occur in cellular metabolic pathways such as cellular respiration and photosynthesis. Involves the transfer of electrons (and energy) from one molecule to another. Changes the charges of the molecules: oxidized molecule becomes more positive because lost electrons, reduced molecule becomes more negative because gained electrons. Half reactions: two half reactions combine to form one redox reaction, each half reaction describes whether the molecule gains or loses electrons, one half reaction contains the electron donor while the other half reaction contains the electron acceptor. Relationship between (cid:1831) and (cid:1833: (cid:1831) = reduction potential of electron acceptor reduction potential of electron donor, (cid:1833)= (cid:1832) (cid:1831) . Electron transfers to acetate because acetate has higher reduction potential (cid:1840)(cid:1827)(cid:1830)(cid:1834) becomes oxidized.

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