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Vocab
100
It's used to "view" the "smallest" of things.
What is a micro-scope?
100
It's the 3-letter suffix that completes the names of these molecules to remind us how sweet they are:
f-r-u-c-t-___
s-u-c-r-___
l-a-c-t-___
What is o-s-e?
100
Enzyme activity can be influenced by substrate concentrations, temperatures, and this measure of how acidic or basic an environment is.
What is pH?
100
It's the word that describes the diffusion of water molecules across a membrane.
What is osmosis?
200
It's the term used to describe a person who "studies" things that are "living."
What is a bio-logist?
200
A single Hershey kiss will quickly provide more than 20 Calories (or 84 joules) of this physical quantity; enough to perform a decent amount of work.
What is energy?
200
It's the name of the location where a substrate and an enzyme bind together.
What is the active site?
200
It's the term that describes the cell membrane's ability to allow only certain materials to enter and leave the cell.
What is selectively permeable (or semi-permeable)?
300
It's name would suggest that it's an "enzyme" that breaks down "fats".
What is lip-ase?
300
It's the term that describes any two-ringed sugar molecule like the one pictured below:
What is a disaccharide?
300
Enzymes speed up reactions by lowering this critical threshold needed to start a reaction.
What is activation energy?
300
It's the specific molecule or substance which an enzyme binds to and acts upon as it helps speed up a chemical reaction.
What is a substrate?
400
"Many" different electrical quantities can be "measured" using this tool.
What is a multi-meter?
400
A hexagonally-shaped monosaccharide like glucose, would typically have this many hydrogen atoms.
What is 12?
400
This term describes a molecule, such as an enzyme, which aids in chemical reactions but is not used up or changed in the reaction itself.
What is a catalyst?
400
The animal and plant cells pictured below are experiencing the effects of water loss after being placed in this type of solution.
What is a hypertonic solution?
500
As a noun, it's a math expression like 4x+3 that has "two terms" in it.
As an adjective, it describes the system of "naming" organisms with "two" words; as in Homo sapiens.
What is bi-nomial? (or poly-nomial)
500
Lugol's iodine test would prove positive for each of these food samples that contain this complex carbohydrate.
What is starch?
500
Pepsin, an enzyme located in this part of the digestive tract, works best in an environment with a low pH around 2.
What is the stomach?
500
It's the name of this building block of nucleic acids like DNA and RNA. Each one consists of a phosphate group, a sugar, and a nitrogen-containing base.
What is a nucleotide?