Enzyme Game

vocabulary

100

This is the name of the substance that an enzyme catalyzes

substrate

200

True or False: An enzyme can typically bond with multiple substrates

what is false

300

This is a word for water loving

hydrophilic

400

This is the name for the area on an enzyme where a substrate will bind

What is an active site

500

This is the name for the type of covalent bond between to amino acids

what is a peptide bond

"Lock and Key"

100

The Lock and Key model best represent the connection between two or more these

What are enzymes and substrates

200

What is the name for the energy required to start a reaction

activation energy

300

True or False: Enzymes are "used up" in chemical reactions

What is false

400

This place is usually where they meet and is the source of information transfer.

What is the active site

500

This is a word for anything that speeds up chemical reactions

What is a catalyst

Proteins

100

This is a word for a chain of amino acids

What is a polypeptide

200

This is a word for a spiral structure within a polypeptide

What is an alpha helix

300

Alpha helices and beta pleated sheets are examples of this level of protein structure

secondary structure

400

substrates help this object catalyze different substances

What is enzyme

500

This is a name for the protein structure of a few folded polypeptides in their final form

What quaternary structure

Connections Blocked

100

This is a term used to describe the amount of enzymes and substrates in a mixture

What is enzyme/substrate concentration

200

This is the suffix that many enzymes tend to have

What is -ase

300

Enzymes tend to start doing this if the temperature exceeds 40 degrees Celsius

What is denature

400

These bond to enzymes so that they cannot use the substrates to carry out functionality

What are inhibitors

500

Penicillin is this type of inhibitor

What is a competitive inhibitor

Reaction Rates

100

This is what happens to the reaction rate of an enzyme as the enzyme concentration increases

What is increases

200

if this is increased too much, hydrogen bonds within the enzymes start to break

What is temperature

300

This is a neutral pH

What is 7

400

This is name for a molecule that binds to a site other than the active site of an enzyme and changes its shape and reactivity

What is a noncompetitive inhibitor

500

When pH is decreased, hydrogen ions interfere with this type of bonds within an enzyme

What are dissulfide bonds