Summary: Physiology Of Microorganisms

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• 1 Week 1

• 1.1 Introduction

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• What kind of things does a microbe need for a living?

  Water, nutrients, energy, electron source, metabolic plan and enzymes

• Why does the microbe need electrons?

  To perform different biochemical reactions

• What does anabolism require to proceed?

  Input of energy

• What is an allosteric regulator?

  A substance that binds to a site on an enzyme or receptor, resulting in a conformational change that either enhances or inhibits its function

• 1.2 Thermodynamics I

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• What does thermodynamics study?

  How heat and work are related, so transformation of energy

• What does it mean when w > 0 or w < 0

  w > 0 means work on the system and w < 0 means work by the system

• What happens when the process is isothermal?

  There is a perfect balance between heat and work

• What does the Clausius inequality tell us?

  Energy is always irreversibly dispersed

• What does the third law of thermodynamics state?

  The entropy of all perfect crystalline substances is zero at T = 0, so it has only one micostate

• 1.3 Thermodynamics II

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• How can ∆G be calculated from∆G0?

  By adjusting it for the concentrations of products and reactants