Enzymes
Chemistry
Cell Functions
Origin of Life
Miscellaneous
100

Km represents this quantity

What is substrate concentration at 1/2 Vmax

100

The only nonpolar functional group

What is methyl?

100

The Na+/K+ pump is this type of transport

What is active transport?

100

This theory states that life started by inorganic compounds that went through a series of complex reactions to become cells

What is abiogenesis?

100

Within a class (mammalia, aves, etc), this is the most inclusive classification

What is order?

200

Endergonic reactions result in a net ____ of free energy

What is gain?

200

Disulfide bonds between two polypeptides affect this type of structure

What is quaternary structure?

200

Sterols role in the phospholipid bilayer

What is a fluidity buffer?

200

This hypothesis says that life was brought to Earth by some extraterrestrial process

What is the Seeding Hypothesis?
200

After a single instance of the Na+/K+ pump, the net charge gained inside the cell is this number

What is -1?

300

Organic cofactors are called this

What are coenzymes?

300

Hydrogen can form H-bonds with these elements when they are part of a polar covalent bond

What are Fluorine, Oxygen, and Nitrogen?

300

The functions of a vacuole in plant cells

What are water storage and maintaining turgor pressure?

300

These specialized RNA within ribosomes are capable of self-replication without a protein helper

What are ribozymes?
300

What was Lamarck's incorrect mechanism for evolution?

What is the idea that offspring inherit physical, nongenetic traits from parents?

400

This type of inhibitor changes the shape of an enzyme

What is a noncompetitive inhibitor?

400

Steroids are different from other lipids because they lack these

What are glycerol and fatty acids?

400

The Sodium/Glucose cotransport moves glucose against its gradient using energy from this

What is moving sodium down the gradient?

400

This carbon isotope was found in large quantities 3.7 BYA, suggesting that there was life during this period

What is 12C?

400

The difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic flagella

What is spiral vs. wave motion?

500
Pepsin operates within this pH range

What is 0.5-4.5?

500

Fructose's Carbonyl is _____, while Glucose's is _____

What is Terminal, Subterminal?

500

Bulk transport can be broken into these two types

What are endocytosis and exocytosis?

500

These compounds were synthesized by the Miller-Urey experiments

What are formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, formic acid, amino acids, and urea?

500

This protein is responsible for severing glycoproteins that attach to the outside of the cell

What is TMPRSS2?

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