- adenosine triphosphate
- phosphoglucoisomerase
- ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase
- plastoquinone oxidoreductase.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Death By Biology
For all of you who are going to take biology next year, best of luck. So many long words. Ok, first person to define all of the following words correctly will get a prize on the first day of school.
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Adenosine triphosphate is a nucleoside triphosphate used in cells as a coenzyme. It is often called the "molecular unit of currency" of intracellular energy transfer. ATP transports chemical energy within cells for metabolism.
ReplyDeletePhosphoglucoisomerase (alternatively known as phosphoglucose isomerase or Glucose-6-phosphate isomerase) are a group of enzymes of the isomerase family (EC 5.3.1.9), so named for their main function in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis. In both these pathways phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) is used to inter-convert glucose-6-phosphate and fructose 6-phosphate.
Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, commonly known by the abbreviation RuBisCO, is an enzyme involved in the first major step of carbon fixation, a process by which atmospheric carbon dioxide is converted by plants to energy-rich molecules such as glucose.
plastoquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) (EC:1.6.5.3) is a respiratory-chain enzyme that catalyses the transfer of two electrons from NADH to ubiquinone in a reaction that is associated with proton translocation across the membrane (NADH + ubiquinone = NAD+ + ubiquinol)
I totally know what these are.
just kidding I can't even pronounce the first letter ;)
Yay Grace! Thanks for taking the time to look these up and copy down some stuff. Now you can look forward to the first day of school.
DeleteGrace, you're not even taking bio :D
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly :)
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