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What is ATP?
Molecule used by cells to store chemical energy.
What is a biomolecule?
Molecule that is produced by living things.
What are 4 nitrogen bases?
Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine.
What is an enzyme?
Proteins that can change the rates of specific reactions.
What is a product?
The ending substance(s), written on the right side of the chemical reaction arrow.
What is a monomer of a lipid?
Fatty Acids.
What are the elements of life? (hint: there are 5)
Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorous, and Oxygen.
Which nitrogen bases pair together?
Adenine+Thymine, Cytosine+Guanine. (A+T) (C+G)
What is the substrate?
A substance being acted upon by an enzyme.
What is a hormone?
Chemical substance secreted by endocrine.
What are types of RNA? (hint: there are 3)
mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA.
What is monomer of a protein?
Amino acid.
What is the monomer of a nucleic acid?
Nucleotide.
When enzymes are ____, they stop working.
Denatured.
What is glucose?
A monosaccharide sugar.
What is the polymer of a protein?
Polypeptide.
What are the compounds of life? (hint: there are 4)
Carbohydrates, Lipids, Protein, and Nucleic Acids.
What are the elements that make up nucleic acid?
Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorous. (C,H,O,N,P)
What denatures enzymes?
Temperature and pH levels.
What is the catalyst?
Substance that speeds up chemical reaction without being chemically changed by the reaction.
How much amino acids make up protein?
20 amino acids.
What is a monomer of carbohydrates?
Monosaccharides.
What is nucleotide made of?
Sugar, Phosphorus, and Nitrogen Base.
What is an Enzyme-Substrate Complex?
Intermediate formed when a substrate interacts with the enzyme’s active site.
What is an activation energy?
Minimum amount of energy that must be added to a mixture of reactants for a chemical reaction to occur.