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- Study of energy transformations in a system
- Organisims=open systems
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| Enzyme-compounds built up and broken down in small steps |
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- Energy released by breaking the bonds of larger molecules to form smaller molecules
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| energy consumed to build larger molecules form simpler molecules; sometimes called biosynthetic pathways |
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| First Law of Thermodynamics |
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- Amount of energy in universe is constant
- Energy can neither be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another
- Energy used and released in any reaction must be balanced
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| Second Law of Thermodynamics |
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- Energy affected matter in universe is becoming random
- Entropy (disorder) is increasing
- Energy is tending toward heat
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