MyPlate
Nutrients
Vitamins & Minerals
Enzymes
Chemistry of Biology
100

The recommendations on the myplate diagram show a small circle next to the plate. How should you label that small circle?

What is dairy?

100

Name four organic nutrients.

What are Carbohydrates (Starch), Lipids(Fats), Proteins, and Vitamins?


100

If you are deficient in this vitamin you may get scurvy.

What is Vitamin C?

100

What kind of organic molecule is an enzyme?

What is a protein?

100

Which substance below is organic? How do you know?

1. H20

2. C6H1206

3. NaCl

4. CO2


What is C6H1206?

It has Carbon and Hydrogen.

200

The MyPlate diagram recommends that the left half of your plate should be labeled  __________& ___________

What are fruits and vegetables?

200

Name 2 inorganic Nutrients.

What are Minerals and Water?

200

If you are deficient in this vitamin you may get Night Blindness?

What is Vitamin A?

200

The optimum temperature for enzymes in humans is 37 degrees. If your temperature gets higher your enzymes will _____________ and lose their _______.

What is denature and lose their shape?

200

Name the building blocks of a protein.

What are amino acids?

300

The MyPlate diagram recommends that the right half of your plate should be labeled __________& ___________.

What are grains and proteins?

300

What nutrient is most important in the growth and repair of tissues?

What is protein?

300

If you are deficient in this vitamin you may get rickets.

What is Vitamin D?

300

Name the 2 Modes of Action Enzymes use.

1. Lock and Key

2. Induced Fit

300

Name the building blocks of Carbohydrates?

What are simple sugars?

400

The MyPlate recommendations say you should avoid extra _________ in your diet.

What is Fat, Sugar or Salt?

400

Bulky indigestible material not considered a nutrient but needed for a healthy diet is called ____________.

What is roughage/fiber?

400

This mineral is used by the thyroid gland and is found in a diet that includes fish.

What is Iodine?

400

The name of the energy that starts a chemical reaction and the symbol that is used on a graph to represent it.

What is Activation Energy and Ea?

400

What is the name of the process used to make a large complex molecule by removing the water from simple molecules?

What is dehydration synthesis?

500

Name the kind of grain that MyPlate recommends you eat?

Give an example of a food that is this kind of grain.

What are whole grains?

brown rice, whole wheat, quinoa, oats. barley, popcorn

500

How many different amino acids are there? 

How many of these are called essential amino acids and must be obtained from the diet?________

There are 20 amino acids. 

9 of the 20 amino acids are essential and must be obtained in the diet.

500

What mineral is found in the hemoglobin of red blood cells?l

What is iron?

500

Name 5 factors that affect the rate of enzyme activity.

1. pH

2. Temperature

3. Concentration of Substrate /or Enzyme

4. Availability of CoEnzymes/Co-Factors

5. Enzyme Inhibitors

500

A substance that cannot be broken down into a simpler substance that is made of only one kind of atom is called a ________.

What is an Element?