Bioenergetics & Biochemical reactions

• gibbs free energy is the energy available to do work
• it is more favorable to increase disorder and release heat in a system
• entropy is the measure of disorder and enthalpy is the measure of internal energy
• exergonic reaction occurs without help from ATP and endergonic reaction occurs with help
• when Keq > 1, the reaction is exothermic and proceeds forward and Keq < 1, the reaction is endothermic and proceeds reverse
• to make a non-spontaneous reaction spontaneous, you need to increase the reactants and decrease the products