Main Chemistry Information
General Chemistry
Water, Acid, & Base
Enzymes
Organic Compounds
100
The study of changes in matter and structure of matter
What is chemistry?
100
When two atoms come together and share electrons.
What is a molecule?
100
The chemical formula for water.
What is H2O?
100
Always ends in these three letters.
What is -ase?
100
C-H-O are found in a 1:2:1 ratio
What is carbohydrate?
200
Anything that has mass and occupies space
What is matter?
200
When two different elements combine to share electrons
What is a compound?
200
Found on 0-6 on the pH scale
What is an acid?
200
The property that has one enzyme for one type of substrate.
What is specificity?
200
Help build up the structure of a cell and can be an enzyme
What is protein?
300
The amount of matter
What is mass?
300
Charged atoms (+) or (-)
What are ions?
300
The range for a base on the pH scale.
What is 8-14?
300
The ability to speed up a reaction by millions of times.
What is efficiency?
300
Comprised of a phosphate group, base, and sugar molecule; double-helix
What is DNA?
400
These letters represent the various elements on the periodic table.
What are chemical symbols?
400
These type of compounds usually lack C and have a simple structure
What are inorganic?
400
A neutral substance.
What is water?
400
Enzymes work by doing this to help speed up the reaction.
What is orient colliding molecules?
400
"Energy currency" of the body
What is ATP?
500
The four major elements found in the body.
What are H, O, C, N?
500
The most important inorganic compound within our bodies.
What is water?
500
A compound that helps to reduce the drastic change in the change of a pH.
What is a buffer?
500
This characteristic allows the enzyme to regulate reactions
What is Control?
500
Hydrophobic compounds
What are lipids?
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