Chemistry of Life
Enzymes
Cellular Respiration
Body Systems
Organs
100

A type of atom. 

What is an element?
100

The chemical that an enzyme acts upon.

What is a substrate?

100

This input to cellular respiration comes from our lungs. 

What is Oxygen gas?

100
This body system incudes the heart, veins, and arteries. 

What is the circulatory system?

100

This organ pumps blood to circulate it through your body. 

What is the heart?

200

Fats, oils, and waxes. 

What are Lipids?

200

The enzyme that breaks down lipids. 

What is a lipase?

200

Energy. 

What is ATP?
200

This organ system is responsible for taking in O2 and removing CO2 from our bodies. 

What is the respiratory system?

200

These organs filter the blood to produce urine. 

What are kidneys?

300

A small sugar used by the mitochondria for making ATP. 

What is glucose?

300

When a protein loses its shape

What is denaturing (to be denatured)?

300

The organelle where cellular respiration takes place. 

What is the mitochondria?

300
This organ system is responsible for protecting us against disease. 

What is the immune or lymphatic system?

300

The liver produces enzymes, and stores them in this organ. 

What is the gallbladder?

400

The building blocks of proteins.

What are amino acids?

400

The location on the enzyme where it meets the substrate. 

What is the active site?

400

These are the byproducts of cellular respiration. 

What are CO2 and H2O?

400

This organ system keeps us from getting dehydrated. 

What is the excretory system?

400

This organ detoxifies the body by producing many different types of enzymes. 

What is the liver?

500

The type of chemical bond that turns Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms into molecules.

What are covalent bonds?

500

The enzyme that stops our hair from greying. 

What is catalase?

500
We find the most mitochondria in this type of tissue. 

What is muscle tissue?

500

This organ system uses hormones to send messages throughout the body.  

What is the endocrine system?

500

These organs secrete hormones.

What are glands?
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