Biology A-Level
Cellular metabolism
What Cellular metabolism means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Cellular metabolism
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Reference: OCR
Enzymes catalyse reactions such as those of respiration and photosynthesis, controlling the metabolic pathways inside cells.
Topics that use Cellular metabolism
- Enzymes (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Activation energy and enzyme–substrate complexes
- Coenzyme
- Cofactor
- Competitive inhibitors
- Digestion and absorption of products
- Effect of missing cofactors on reaction rate
- Effect of substrate concentration on inhibition
- Enzyme specificity and active-site complementarity
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