8.1 Metabolism

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DP IB Biology (08 Metabolism, Cell Respiration, and Photosynthesis) Mind Map on 8.1 Metabolism, created by Steve Harton on 18/05/2014.
Steve Harton
Mind Map by Steve Harton, updated more than 1 year ago
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8.1 Metabolism
  1. Nature of Science
    1. Bioinformatics have facilitated research into metabolic pathways
      1. Use of databases to identify potential new anti-malarial drugs
    2. Chains vs Cycles
      1. Enzymes
        1. Lower the activation energy of the chemical reactions that they catalyse
          1. Enzymes inhibitors
            1. Distinguishing different types of inhibition from graphs at specified substrate concentration
              1. Practical
                1. Competitive
                  1. Antifreeze poisoning
                    1. Ethanol
                      1. Fomepizole inhibits alcohol dehydrogenase
                    2. Non-competitive
                      1. End-product inhibition
                        1. Conversion of threonine to isoleucine
                  2. Computer simulation
                  3. Calculating and plotting rates of reaction
              2. TOK
                1. To what degree can looking at component parts give us knowledge of the whole?
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