Unit 3 AP Bio

Enzymes

• Enzyme structure

  • Active site

    • Substrate

    • Shape and charge

• Enzyme catalysis

  • How enzymes affect rate of biological reactions

• Environmental impacts on enzyme function

Cellular Energy

• Coupled reactions

  • ATP hydrolysis with other reactions

Photosynthesis

• Photosynthesis evolved from prokaryotic cells

• Formula

• Overall process

• Reactants, products and location of light dependent reaction

  • Know what the ETC does and how this whole process works

    • Photosystems, ETC, electrons, water, NADPH, ATP, proton gradient, ATP synthase etc

• Reactants, products and location of calvin cycle

Cellular Respiration

• Aerobic respiration

  • Overall formula

  • Glycolysis

    • Reactants

    • Products

    • Location

  • Pyruvate oxidation

    • Reactants

    • Products

    • Location

  • Krebs cycle (citric acid cycle)

    • Reactants

    • Products

    • Location

  • Oxidative Phosphorylation

    • Reactants

    • Products

    • Location

    • Know what the ETC does and how this whole process works

      • ETC, electrons, oxygen, NADH, FADH₂, ATP, proton gradient, ATP synthase etc

  • Fermentation

    • Without oxygen

      • Glycolysis 

        • Reactants and products

      • Fermentation (lactic acid and alcoholic) 

        • Reactants and products