An acronym for the properties all living things have.
What is MICE?
100
The simplest form of a carbohydrate.
What is a monosaccharide?
100
A type of protein that acts as a catalyst.
What are enzymes?
100
In order to be different elements, atoms must have a different number of...
What are protons?
100
The molecules that link together to form proteins.
What are amino acids and polypeptides?
200
Exhibit changes in genetic information from one generation to the next.
What is evolution?
200
A general term for monosaccharides and disaccharides.
What are sugars?
200
The pocket in which the enzyme binds to the substrate.
What is the active site?
200
A type of bond in which each atom shares an electron with the other.
What is a covalent bond?
200
Where a hydrophilic amino acid is most likely to reside in a protein.
On the surface.
300
The ability to get and use energy and matter.
What is metabolism?
300
A fatty acid with at least one double bond.
What is unsaturated?
300
The process in which the end product of a metabolic pathway reversibly inhibits an enzyme that catalyzes an early step.
What is feedback inhibition?
300
Name 3 elements that are make up the majority of living organisms.
Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen
300
Two types of transport proteins that use passive transport.
What are channel proteins and carrier proteins?
400
A stable assembly of many large molecules that make up a stripped down version of a true cell.
What is a protocell?
400
Traits of a molecule that can diffuse across the phospholipid bilayer on their own.
Non-polar, hydrophobic, not charged
400
Name 3 factors that affect reaction rate.
Substrate concentration, enzyme concentration, abundance of cofactors or coenzymes, presence of activators or inhibitors, covalent modification, temperature, pH
400
The element with 6 protons.
What is carbon?
400
A class of transport protein that uses energy to move substances against the concentration gradient, powered by ATP hydrolysis.
What are pump proteins?
500
Two probable functions of RNA in early protocells.
Storing information and catalyzing chemical reactions.
500
The type of bond used to join many monomers to form polymers.
What is a covalent bond?
500
Name 3 enzymes.
Many answers.
500
A reaction in which products have more energy than reactants.
What is an endergonic reaction?
500
The shapes produces when atoms from multiple polypeptides interact.