Vocabulary
Function
Inhibitors
Examples
100
What suffix do enzymes usually end in?
-ase
100
T/F- all enzymes work with all substrates.
False- every enzyme has a uniquely shaped active site for a specific substrate.
100
What is an inhibitor?
Something that keeps the enzyme from being able to bind with it's substrate.
100
What is C?
An enzyme.
200
The energy needed to start a chemical reaction.
What is activation energy?
200
How does an enzyme help a chemical reaction?
It lowers the activation energy.
200
What do competitive inhibitors do?
They block the active site not the enzyme, making it unable to bind with it's substrate.
200
What is A?
A substrate
300
Speeds up a chemical reaction.
What is a catalyst?
300
Region on an enzyme where the reaction takes place.
What is an active site?
300
What is the allosteric site?
It is where the noncompetitive inhibitor binds.
300
What is B?
The active site
400
The speed at which a chemical reaction takes place.
What is reaction rate?
400
What is the function of a catalyst (enzymes)?
It speeds up the reaction rate.
400
What is a noncompetitive inhibitor?
Alters the shape of the enzyme without blocking the active site, making the enzyme unable to bind with the substrate.
400
Does the lower line or upper line on an enzyme activation energy graph represent the reaction with an enzyme?
Lower Line
500
The intermediate stage in which the substrate binds in a specific way to the enzyme.
What is the Enzyme-Substrate Complex?
500
What is the function of the Enzyme-Substrate Complex?
It stabilizes the transition state.
500
What is the function of an activator?
It allows the enzyme to more successfully bind to the substrate, enhancing catalysis.
500
What is D?
The products