Zusammenfassung der Ressource
8.1 Metabolism
- Nature of Science
- Bioinformatics have facilitated
research into metabolic pathways
- Use of databases to identify
potential new anti-malarial drugs
- Chains vs Cycles
- Enzymes
- Lower the activation energy of the
chemical reactions that they catalyse
- Enzymes inhibitors
- Distinguishing different types of inhibition from
graphs at specified substrate concentration
- Practical
- Competitive
- Antifreeze poisoning
- Ethanol
- Fomepizole inhibits
alcohol dehydrogenase
- Non-competitive
- End-product inhibition
- Conversion of
threonine to isoleucine
- Computer simulation
- Calculating and plotting
rates of reaction
- TOK
- To what degree can looking at component
parts give us knowledge of the whole?