Organic Molecules
Catalysts in living organisms.
What are enzymes?
Occupies space and has mass.
What is matter?
Type of energy stored in food.
What is chemical energy?
Side of a reaction that the products are on (left or right).
What is the right?
Solute in a solution of lemonade.
What is lemonade mix or lemon juice and sugar?
Type of organic molecule that an enzyme is.
What is a protein?
The three sub-atomic particles that make up an atom.
What are protons, neutrons and electrons?
Bond formed when atoms are shared.
What is a covalent bond?
Type of change when ice melts.
What is physical change?
Water molecules attracted to each other.
What is cohesion?
What element must be present in all organic compounds?
What is a carbon?
Site where the substrate binds to an enzyme.
What is the active site?
Atom with an unequal balance of protons and electrons.
What is an ion?
How an ion is formed.
What is when an atom gains or loses an electron?
When an enzyme changes shape.
What is denaturing?
Why cold water sinks.
What is the density of cold water is higher than warm?
Proteins are a chain of this type of monomer.
What are amino acids?
Substance that binds to the active site and prevents an enzyme from working.
What is an inhibitor?
Of these: O2, CO2, Starch, Mg
The one that is not a molecule.
What is Mg?
Term for energy needed to start a chemical reaction.
What is activation energy?
Monomer of DNA.
What is a nucleotide?
What is polar molecules?
Monomer of DNA.
What is a nucleotide?
What happens to an enzyme after a product is released.
What is it retains its shape or catalyzes another reaction?
Pure substance made of only one kind of atom.
What is an element?
When electrons are shared unequally.
What is a polar or a polar molecule?
Number of substrates most enzymes can act on.
What is one?
Why the temperature of water doesn’t change easily.
What is high specific heat?