Biomolecules
This type of biomolecule is made up of amino acids linked by peptide bonds.
What is a protein?
The region of an enzyme where the substrate binds and the reaction takes place.
What is the active site?
What is a Nucleotide?
This type of bond stabilizes the alpha helix and beta pleated sheet in protein secondary structures.
What are hydrogen bonds?
These types of bonds involve the sharing of electrons between atoms.
What are covalent bonds?
This type of biomolecule is a storage form of glucose that is found in animal cells.
What is glycogen?
Cofactors and coenzymes that are required for enzyme activity.
What are vitamins, minerals, and metal ions?
This is the type of nucleic acid that is the genetic material of all living organisms.
What is DNA?
In the world of fats, these are known for their straight, linear hydrocarbon chains and are typically solid at room temperature.
What are saturated fats?
The atomic number of an element represents the number of these subatomic particles.
What are protons?
This type of biomolecule is a polysaccharide that is made up of glucose molecules.
What is starch?
The two main types of inhibitors that can affect enzyme activity.
What are competitive inhibitors and noncompetitive inhibitors?
This is the type of nucleic acid that is involved in protein synthesis, gene regulation, and signaling.
What is RNA?
The formation of this secondary protein structure involves a right-handed coil or helix.
What is the alpha helix?
This type of bond forms between atoms when one donates electrons to another, resulting in the formation of charged particles.
What is an ionic bond?
This type of biomolecule is a fat-soluble dye that can be used to detect lipids. This type of biomolecule is a fat-soluble dye that can be used to detect lipids.
What is Sudan III?
Types of amino acids would you expect to find in the active site of an enzyme whose substrate is DNA.
What are Magnesium ions, histidine, and tyrosine?
This is the name of the model for the structure of DNA that was proposed by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953.
What is the Double Helix?
These weak forces contribute to the close packing of atoms within a protein's interior.
What are Van der Waals interactions?
The octet rule states that atoms tend to bond in a way that gives them this number of electrons in their outermost energy level.
What is 8 electrons?
This type of chemical test is used to detect reducing sugars.
What is Benidict's solution?
Types of amino acids would you expect to find in the active site of an enzyme whose substrate is starch.
What are aspartic acid, glutamic acid, and amylase?
This is the name of the type of RNA that can be used to silence genes in cancer cells.
What is Small interfering RNA?
Tautomeric shifts can lead to mutations in DNA through this phenomenon.
What is tautomeric base mispairing?
In a polar covalent bond, atoms share electrons unevenly due to differences in this property.
What is electronegativity?