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100

It's used to "view" the "smallest" of things.

What is a micro-scope?

100

It's the 3-letter suffix that completes the names of these molecules to remind us how sweet they are: 

f-r-u-c-t-___ 

s-u-c-r-___ 

l-a-c-t-___

What is o-s-e?

100

Enzyme activity can be influenced by substrate concentrations, temperatures, and this measure of how acidic or basic an environment is.

What is pH?

100

It's the word that describes the diffusion of water molecules across a membrane.

What is osmosis?

200

It's the term used to describe a person who "studies" things that are "living."

What is a bio-logist?

200

A single Hershey kiss will quickly provide more than 20 Calories (or 84 joules) of this physical quantity; enough to perform a decent amount of work.

What is energy?

200

It's the name of the location where a substrate and an enzyme bind together.

What is the active site?

200

It's the term that describes the cell membrane's ability to allow only certain materials to enter and leave the cell.

What is selectively permeable (or semi-permeable)?

300

It's name would suggest that it's an "enzyme" that breaks down "fats".

What is lip-ase?

300

It's the term that describes any two-ringed sugar molecule like the one pictured below:

What is a disaccharide?

300

Enzymes speed up reactions by lowering this critical threshold needed to start a reaction.

What is activation energy?

300

It's the specific molecule or substance which an enzyme binds to and acts upon as it helps speed up a chemical reaction.

What is a substrate?

400

"Many" different electrical quantities can be "measured" using this tool.

What is a multi-meter?

400

A hexagonally-shaped monosaccharide like glucose, would typically have this many hydrogen atoms.

What is 12?

400

This term describes a molecule, such as an enzyme, which aids in chemical reactions but is not used up or changed in the reaction itself.

What is a catalyst?

400

The animal and plant cells pictured below are experiencing the effects of water loss after being placed in this type of solution.

What is a hypertonic solution?

500

As a noun, it's a math expression like 4x+3 that has "two terms" in it.

As an adjective, it describes the system of "naming" organisms with "two" words; as in Homo sapiens.


What is bi-nomial? (or poly-nomial)

500

Lugol's iodine test would prove positive for each of these food samples that contain this complex carbohydrate.

What is starch?

500

Pepsin, an enzyme located in this part of the digestive tract, works best in an environment with a low pH around 2.

What is the stomach?

500

It's the name of this building block of nucleic acids like DNA and RNA.  Each one consists of a phosphate group, a sugar, and a nitrogen-containing base.

What is a nucleotide?

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