AP BIO
This is the name of the reaction that breaks polymers into monomers using water.
What is hydrolysis?
A digestive enzyme that breaks down proteins in the small intestine
What is Trypsin?
Enzymes lower this barrier to make reactions occur faster.
What is activation energy?
A diagram that shows evolutionary relationships based on shared traits.
What is a cladogram (or phylogenetic tree)?
An enzyme that breaks down fats into fatty acids and glycerol.
What is Lipase?
Enzymes work best within a specific range of these two environmental conditions.
What are temperature and pH?
This is the term for a cross involving one trait, such as flower color.
What is a monohybrid cross?
an enzyme that breaks down complex carbohydrates into simple sugars.
What is Amylase?
This term describes the region of an enzyme where the substrate binds.
What is the active site?
This type of evolution occurs when unrelated species develop similar traits.
What is convergent evolution?
A diet group that has Chironomid larvae and Earthworms
What is HH Group?
This term describes a multi-subunit enzyme that can switch between active and inactive forms due to binding at regulatory sites.
What is an allosteric enzyme?
This network of membranes modifies and packages proteins for export.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
Two enzymes protease and amylase are found in the diet of Juvenile Chinese Giant Salamanders.
What is an Earthworms?
This enzyme removes RNA primers and replaces them with DNA during DNA replication
What is DNA polymerase I?