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These are my IB Biology notes for the entire Unit 8: 8.1 (Metabolism), 8.2 (Cell respiration) and 8.3 (Photosynthesis). They cover all understandings from the syllabus. Written by an IB Student who scored a 6 in IB Biology SL and a total of 41/45 in the IB.

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8.1 METABOLISM
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Metabolism web of alt
=
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Cell or Organ is m
- > Most chemical reactions
occur in a Sequence of small
steps which forma me tabolic pathwouy
Meta bolic chains # glycolysis

A B C → D → →



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In crease the rate of the chemical reactions that they cataly se
activationenergya.cn
bylowering their
erqy needeol to Overcome the energy
barrier that pre vents the reactor

Remainunused / unChanyeol at the enol of the reactor ( bio lo -




qual Catalyst)


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enzyme
① Substrato birds to active site ofenzy me and toms an
enzy me substrato complex ( the share and Chemical
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properties of active si te and substrate match each other)
② Substrato is Converter into a product while it is bound
to active si te
③ Product sepárate s from active site , having it vacant
for an other substrato to bind again

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Enzymeinhibitors chemicalsubstancesthatblnolto
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enzymesandreomuetheactivityoftheenzymeithere.by
decreasingtherateofthereactlon
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Competitive inhibitors Non competitive inhibitors
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Compete withsubstratefor ☐
Donotcompelewithsubstrate
active site withactivesite

Arestructurallyandche -
☐ Binoltoanallostericsite
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, since the in hibitor is in Competition with the sub -




strate in creas ing the substrato concentration
,
di minis hes the effects of the in hibitor This reduces
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the Chance of the in hibitor binding to the active site
as the substrato out compete s the inhibitorio the
Maximum rate of the un inhibiteol enzy me can be achi e -




re ol but it takes a much higher subs trate concentrate on
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to do so .




since the in hibitor is not in competition with the
substrate , in crea Sing the substrate con centration has no
effect on the in hibitor Even at high substrate con cien
.
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trations , some en zy mes are Hill in hibiteol : there are
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tener Functional active Sites ( ome to the comformato -




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princess the sub Strokes , even if the substrato concentrati on
in creas es It talles approx the same substrate concentra
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ti on to reach the maximum rate , but the maximum rate
is lower than the One of the uninhiblleol enzyme .

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Andrew Allott, David Mindorff IB Biology Course Book
Publisher: februari 2014 ISBN: 9780198392118 Edition: 1

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