Enzymes
What is the primary function of an enzyme in a chemical reaction?
What is speed up the rate of reaction?
What characteristic of life refers to "The Building Blocks of Life?"
What is Made of Cells?
What term describes water molecules sticking to other surfaces?
What is Adhesion?
This macromolecule provides the quickest energy source for the body.
What is Carbohydrates?
What are the six essential elements found in all living things?
What is Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur?
What specific location on the enzyme's structure does the substrate bind?
What is the active site?
Eating food is the source of energy for a lot of living things, relating to which one of the five characteristics?
What is Use and Obtain Energy?
What property of water allows insects, like water striders, to walk on the surface of water?
What is Cohesion?
Amino acids are the monomers of this molecule.
What is Proteins?
Name the only macromolecule in the body whose primary function is to store genetic information.
What is Nucleic Acids?
On a reaction curve, what does an enzyme do to the activation energy of a reaction?
What is lowers the activation energy?
A bright light causing you to blink is an example of which characteristic?
What is React to Changes?
Water is known as the universal solvent because it is a polar molecule. What is polarity?
What is an Uneven Distribution of Electrons in a Molecule?
Give one primary function of proteins other than structural support (building muscle and bone).
What is Regulate Cell Processes?
The four macromolecules found in all living organisms.
What are Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids?
What is the term for an enzyme losing its functional shape due to extreme changes in temperature or pH?
What is Denaturation?
This characteristic describes an organism's specilized features that help it survive in it's environment.
What is Adaptations?
What two water properties work together to create Capillary Action?
What is Cohesion and Adhesion?
Fats, oils, and waxes are examples of this hydrophobic macromolecule.
What is Lipids?
The lock and key model describes a specific fit between the enzyme's active site and which other molecule?
What is a substrate?
How does a non-competitive inhibitor prevent a reaction from occurring?
What is binds to the different site on the enzyme, causing the active site to change shape?
Name the characteristics of life used to classify something as a living thing.
What is Made of Cells, Use/Obtain Energy, Adapt to Surroundings, React to Changes, Reproduction, and Growth and Development?
Explain heat capacity and what is does in humans?
What is the amount of energy it takes to heat up/cool down water 1 degree and Helps cool off the body through sweat?
Sarah broke her leg playing basketball. What is the monomer of the macromolecule that will directly help build and repair the new tissue?
What is Amino Acids?
On a graph depicting activation energy, there are two lines, one is lower on the y axis than the other. The catalyst does what to make this line lower than the other?
What is Lowers the Activation Energy?