Energetics biochemical

Many theories about the rise of eukaryotes from prokaryotes focus on a possible role for symbiosis. 

The idea of endosymbiosis, in which a larger cell engulfs a smaller one, plays a large role in scenarios for the development of organelles in eukaryotic cells. 

All cells require energy for a number of purposes. Many reactions that take place in the cell, particularly those involving synthesis of large molecules, cannot take place unless energy is supplied. The Sun is the ultimate source of 

A reaction that takes place as a part of many biochemical processes is the hydrolysis of the compound adenosine triphosphate, or ATP (Section 1.2). 

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Patton, A. R., 1965. Biochemical Energetics and Kinetics. Philadelphia W.B. Saunders. 

Current Aspects of Biochemical Energetics For the 25th Anniversary of P (p. 37)... 

Kaplan, Nathan O. and Kennedy, Eugene P. Current Aspects of Biochemical Energetics. Academic Press, New York. 1966. 

Now, as to the structure of the new edition. Essentially, it follows the old in that Chapter 1 introduces the basic chemical terms to those who are unfamiliar with them, and Chapters 2 and 3 deal respectively with the properties of the small and giant molecules of which the cell is composed. In the earlier edition, the structure of the. cell itself was not discussed until much later this time, and because of the importance we attach to showing some subcelluiar organelles as composed of higher order hierarchies of macromolecules, the account of the cell forms Chapter 4. This concludes the section on biochemistry as analysis, and we turn in Chapters 5 and 6 to work, enzymes and metabolism. The core of biochemical energetics and metabolism is in Chapters 7 and 8, and it is these... 

Biochemically, energetic coupling is achieved by the transfer of one or both of the terminal phosphate groups of AMP to an acceptor molecule, most of the bond energy being preserved in the newly formed molecule, e.g., glucose + ATP -> glucose-6-phosphate + ADP.f ... 

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