The text discusses various biochemical processes, focusing on their mechanisms and distinctions. Oxidation and reduction are defined by electron transfer, with oxidation involving the loss of electrons and reduction the gain.
Oxidation occurs when a reactant loses electrons in a reaction while reduction is when the reactant gains electrons
Oxidation does not require oxygen while reduction does
Oxidation uses energy while reduction releases it
Both use phosphate
Both form a nucleic acid
Both deal with electrons
Phosphorylation adds phosphate to a amino acid whereas decarboxylation removes carboxylate
Decarboxylation releases carbon dioxide phosphorylation does not.
Decarboxylation is a reaction of carboxylic acids
Both use enzymes
Both act in cells
Both help making atp
-Dehydration synthesis builds bonds while hydrolysis breaks them
-One involves adding water while one involves taking it away
-One makes monomers into polymers and one makes monomers out of polymers, thus causing anabolism and catabolism
-Dehydration synthesis uses energy while hydrolysis releases it.
-Hydrolysis uses a enzymic catalyst but dehydration synthesis does not
- Phosphorylation involves the adding of phosphate to amino acids while hydrolysis takes away a phosphate molecule
-Hydrolysis uses water, phosphorylation doesn’t
Hydrolysis releases energy, phosphorylation uses it
-Hydrolysis turns ATP to ADP while phosphorylation makes ADP to ATP
Both processes use water
Both use monomers
Both occur in the cell
Both act on macronutrients such as nucleic acids and complex carbohydrates
