Enzyme Basics
What is the main function of an enzyme?
What is speeding up chemical reactions by lowering activation energy?
What is metabolism?
What is all the chemical reactions that take place inside cells, including anabolic and catabolic reactions.
What is the main purpose of cellular respiration?
What is to produce ATP?
What is a substrate?
What is a molecule that an enzyme acts on?
What organelle performs photosynthesis?
What is the chloroplast?
What type of molecule are most enzymes made of?
What is Proteins?
What is the difference between catabolism and anabolism?
What is Catabolism pathways in which complex molecules break down into simpler ones; Anabolism pathways that require an energy input to synthesize complex molecules from simpler ones?
In what organelle does cellular respiration mainly takes place?
What is the Mitochondrion?
What is the name of the enzyme-substrate temporary complex?
What is the enzyme-substrate complex?
What gas does photosynthesis produce that respiration use?
What is oxygen?
What is the specific area on an enzyme where the substrate binds?
Which process releases energy: catabolism or anabolism?
What is catabolism?
What are the three main stages of cellular respiration?
What is Glycolysis, Krebs cycle, and electron transport chain?
What happens to enzyme activity if the substrate concentration keeps increasing past saturation?
What is it levels off?
What gas does respiration produce that photosynthesis use?
What is carbon dioxide?
What happens to an enzyme when it becomes denatured?
What is loses its shape and can no longer function correctly?
What is ATP's full name?
What is Adenosine triphosphate?
What molecule is used as the main fuel for cellular respiration?
What is Glucose?
What is activcation energy?
What is The energy required to start a chemical reaction?
What is sunlight?
What is Temperature and pH (bonus points: substrate concentration)
What happens to ATP when it releases energy?
What is it loses a phosphate group and becomes ADP?
During cellular respiration, what molecule carries high-energy electrons to the electron transport chain?
What is NADH and FADH2?
How do enzymes affect activation energy?
What is it lowers it?
In the overall equation for photosynthesis, what gas is used in the greatest amount to produce carbon?
What is carbon dioxide?