Engaging Enzymes
The enzyme that is responsible for breaking milk sugar into its component monosaccharides is called this.
What is lactase?
The prefix poly means this, in the word polymer.
What is many?
The x axis always runs in this direction.
What is horizontal?
Making an educated guess before conducting an experiment is helpful and given this name.
What is a hypothesis?
60% of your body is made of this important substance
What is water?
In the lock and key model, the enzyme is this?
What is the lock?
A biological polymer essential to bodily functions.
What is a protein?
The dependent variable is typically graphed on this axis.
What is the y-axis?
It is best never to change more than one of these when conducting a scientific experiment.
What is variable?
while oils and fats are similar molecules, only this one is a liquid at room temperature.
What is oil?
Two important environmental factors that can seriously impact an enzyme's ability to perform its function are these/
What are pH and temperature?
The building blocks of polymers are called monomers, and the building blocks of proteins are these monomers.
What are amino acids?
When labeling the x and y-axes of the graph you are making, be sure to include these essential items.
What are units?
Evan's data revealed that SPF 50 offers the best protection from sunburn is an example of which step of the scientific method.
What is conclusion?
This special protein found in blood carries oxygen to every cell in your body.
What is hemoglobin?
An enzyme functions as this, in nature....something that speeds up a chemical reaction.
What is a catalyst?
The polymer in our milk plastic which formed curds was called this.
What is casein?
All excellent graphs should contain a sensible one of these, so your reader knows what they are looking at.
What is a title?
Although scientific experiments require changing some factor in order to test an idea, some factors, called ____________ should not be changed.
What are controls?
This simple sugar is the 'gasoline' for your body's engine.
What is glucose?
Due to the specificity of enzymes, they will not accept a different, one of these, the molecule on which the enzyme acts (or the 'key').
What is a substrate?
A synthetic hydrocarbon polymer that we use daily that is often made from fossil fuel is this.
What is plastic?
If your data is properly graphed and labeled well, all readers should be able to draw a simple one of these from what they see.
What is a conclusion?
Rearrange these scrambled up steps of the scientific method.
Conclude, Hypothesize, Research, Test
Hypothesize
Research
Test
Conclude
Unlike plants, organisms which must ingest food because they cannot produce it themselves are called this.
What are heterotrophs?