The minimum amount of energy required for a reaction to occur.
What is activation energy
100
Polymers consisting of chains of monosaccharide units.
What is polysaccharides
100
These proteins speed up the rate of metabolic reactions but are unchanged in the process.
What is enzymes
100
This scientist discovered cells in the year 1665
What is Robert Hooke
100
These type of fats contain C=C double bonds and are liquids at room temperature.
What is unsaturated fats
200
These antibodies have catalytic properties.
What is abzymes
200
This dissacharide is a cleavage product of starch and is important in thee brewing of beer.
What is maltose
200
Amino acids are linked together by this bond.
What is peptide bond
200
This organelle can be described as the "Cleaning crew"of the cell
What is lysosome
200
These fatty acids cannot be synthesized by the body and must be acquired through our diet.
What is essential fatty acids
300
In Michaelis Menten kinetics a sigmoid curve is shown for these type of enzymes.
What is allosteric enzymes
300
Glycogen in the liver is converted back to glucose when glucose concentration is low by this hormone.
What is Glucagon
300
This is the linear sequence of amino acid structural units.
What is primary structure
300
The part of the cell sometimes described as the "security gate"
What is cell membrane
300
In the human body this enzyme hydrolyzes triglycerides to fatty acids.
What is lipase
400
This is the highest energy arrangement of atoms that is intermediate in structure between the structure of the reactants and the structure of the products.
What is transition state
400
This polysaccharide is a highly branched polymer of glucose found in plants and is a component of starch.
What is Amylopectin
400
In sickle cell mutation glutamic acid is replaced by this amino acid.
What is valine
400
Cell walls, plastids and chloroplasts are structures unique to this type of cell.
What is Plant cell
400
This is broken down in the presence of strong bases (eg: NaOH or KOH) to give (sodium or potassium) salts of a fatty acid or soap and glycerol.
What is Trigyceride
500
Vanadium (v) oxide is the inorganic catalyst used for the manufacture of sulphuric acid in this industrial process.
What is contact process
500
This is the general term for a carbohydrate that is oxidized by Tollen's, Fehling's, or Benedict's solution .
What is reducing sugar
500
This amino acid does not have a hydrogen on the α amino group and so it cannot donate a hydrogen bond to stabilize an α helix or a β sheet.
What is Proline
500
This type of cell contains 70 S ribosomes
What is Prokaryotic Cell
500
The degree of unsaturation can be determined by measuring the amount of this chemical element that can react with unsaturated fat or oil.