Properties of Water
The formula when you combine two hydrogen atoms with one oxygen atom is
What is H2O?
The building blocks of proteins are
What are amino acids?
The role of enzymes is
What is to speed up reactions?
This is the term for the reactants in an enzyme-catalyzed reaction
What are substrates?
This property of water allows it to stick to other surfaces
What is adhesion?
This type of biomolecule includes starch and glucose
What are carbohydrates?
This term describes the specific region where substrates bind on an enzyme describes the specific region where substrates bind on an enzyme
What is the active site?
This is the energy required to start a chemical reaction
What is activation energy?
Water is referred to as the "universal solvent", which means it can do this
What is because it can dissolve many substances?
This type of biomolecule is responsible for storing genetic information
What is a nucleic acid?
When an enzyme loses its shape and function due to extreme conditions, we say the enzyme has done this
What is denature/denaturation/denatured?
In a biochemical reaction, the reactants are turned into this
What are products?
The term for water's ability to absorb and retain heat
What is specific heat?
The main function of lipids in the body is
What is to store energy?
These factors can affect enzyme activity
What are temperature and pH (and amount of substrate)?
Enzymes speed up chemical reactions by doing this
What is lowering the activation energy?
Water's density changes when it freezes because
What is it becomes less dense, allowing ice to float?
This polymer is made of nucleotide monomers
What is nucleic acid?
Enzymes speed up chemical reactions, so it is classified as a
What is a catalyst?
If there is a high concentration of substrates, this will happen to enzyme ativity
What is increase the rate of reaction?