Chemical Bonding
Chemical bonding involves these subatomic particles
What are electrons?
This is the bond linking two amino acids
What is a peptide bond?
This is the common name ending given to all enzymes
What is "-ase"?
These are the two types of nucleic acids
What are DNA and RNA?
It's the chemical symbol for potassium
What is K?
This type of chemical bonding involves sharing electrons
What is covalent bonding?
These are the four elements that make up a peptide bond
What are carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen?
This is what enzymes do to the speed of a chemical reaction
What is increase it?
This nucleic acid is double-stranded
What is DNA?
One of the two egg-laying mammals
What is the platypus and the spiny anteater?
This type of bond gives water its properties
What is hydrogen bonding?
These are the two ends of an amino acid that link with other amino acids to make a peptide bond
What are the amino group and the carboxylic acid group?
This is what enzymes lower to make chemical reactions happen more easily
What is the activation energy?
This nucleic acid is single-stranded
What is RNA?
One of the only two planets that do not have any moons
What are Mercury and Venus?
This is how many electrons are shared in a double covalent bond
What is two pairs (four)?
If 8 amino acids are joined together, this is how many water molecules are lost from the polypeptide
The substance on which an enzyme acts
What is a substrate?
This is what DNA has the information to make, and the molecule that actually does work in an organism
What is a protein?
This is opposite of the color blue
What is orange?
The type of bond when electrons are unevenly shared
What is a polar (covalent) bond?
This is the name for the loss of a water molecule when a dipeptide is formed
What is dehydration synthesis?
The location where an enzyme and a substrate fit together
What is an active site?
This is the chemical bond holding DNA strands together
What are hydrogen bonds?
The common name for myocardial infarction
What is heart attack?