Vocabulary Vault
Environmental Factors
Regulatory Factors
AP Time
100
The minimum energy required for reactants to reach the transition state.
What is activation energy?
100
Two environmental factors that can affect reaction rates.
What are pH and temperature?
100
When a molecule binds to this type of site, it causes a change in enzyme shape and activity.
What is an allosteric site?
100
This statement best helps explain the reaction specificity of an enzyme.
What is C?
200
The temporary structure formed when an enzyme binds its substrate.
What is the enzyme–substrate complex?
200
Increasing temperature initially increases enzyme activity because it increases this form of energy.
What is kinectic energy?
200
Increasing substrate concentration restores enzyme activity when this type of inhibitor is present.
What is a competitive inhibitor?
200
This statement best explains how the enzyme speeds up the reaction.
What is B?
300
A loss of enzyme shape and function caused by changes in temperature or pH.
What is denaturation?
300
A change in pH alters enzyme activity by disrupting these bonds that maintain enzyme shape?
What are ionic and hydrogen bonds?
300
When this type of inhibitor is present, Enzyme activity decreases even when substrate concentration is high.
What is a non-competitive inhibitor?
300
This statement best predicts the effects of increasing the substrate concentration while keeping the inhibitor concentration constant.
What is D?
400
This term describes the inactive protein portion of an enzyme that lacks its required helper component.
What is an apoenzyme?
400
An enzyme functions optimally at pH 2. This suggests the enzyme is most likely adapted to this kind of environment.
What is acidic?
400
This regulatory mechanism occurs when the final product of a metabolic pathway inhibits an enzyme earlier in the pathway.
What is feedback inihibition?
400
This statement best helps justify the researcher's claim.
What is B?
500
This type of cofactor is an organic molecule, often derived from vitamins, that assists enzyme function.
What is a coenzyme?
500
This regulatory mechanism occurs when the final product of a metabolic pathway inhibits an enzyme earlier in the pathway.
What is feedback inhibition?
500
Feedback inhibition is this type of inhibition.
What is allosteric?
500
This must remain the same for all trials of the experiment.
What is A?
