Enzymes
This is the site to which an enzyme may bind.
What is an active site?
This organ, along with the liver and gallbladder, is part of the digestive system but does not lie within the main tract.
What is the pancreas?
These are the three main kinds of blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
These are the two main gasses the respiratory system aims to exchange.
What are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
This rapper is known by the nicknames 'Mr Worldwide' and 'Mr 305'.
Who is Pitbull?
This term refers to the breakdown of complex molecules into simpler ones.
What is catabolism?
Digestion in the body occurs through these three different methods.
What are mechanical, chemical, and enzymatic digestion?
Veins and the heart possess this feature to ensure the unidirectional flow of blood.
What are valves?
These two components make up ventilation.
What are inhalation/inspiration and exhalation/expiration?
This book series by Australian author Emily Rodda follows protagonists Lief, Jasmine, and Barda as they attempt to locate seven powerful gems.
What is Deltora Quest?
An inhibitor may bind to this alternative site to stop enzyme reactions.
What is the allosteric site?
These two types of finger-like projections help aid digestion in the small intestine.
What are villi and microvilli?
This term refers to the inner layer that lines the interior of blood vessels.
What is the endothelium?
These fine hairs help produce mucus to trap particles for excretion.
What are cilia?
This actress played the titular character Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson in the movie 'Lady Bird' (2017), and Jo March in 'Little Women' (2019).
Who is Saoirse Ronan?
This theory describes the conformational change of an enzyme when exposed to a substrate to increase binding efficiency.
What is the induced fit model?
This term refers to the movement of the bolus down the oesophagus through muscular contractions.
What is peristalsis?
The lymph system helps to filter out unwanted particulates and excess extracellular fluid to this vein.
What is the subclavian vein?
This law explains the inverse relationship between pressure and volume.
What is Boyle's law?
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What is ALL CAPS?
This type of inhibition refers to a permanent binding of the active site of an enzyme to a competitive inhibitor.
What is mechanism-based inhibition?
Deficiency of this micronutrient can lead to diseases such as beriberi syndrome.
What is Vitamin B1 (thiamin)?
This electrical node lies above the atrium of the heart.
What is the sinoatrial node?
This effect describes the tendency for cells with high levels of metabolism to receive greater amounts of oxygen due to changes in pH.
What is the Bohr shift?
This Shakespearean character, whose name is the title of the play they star in, is nicknamed the Moor of Venice.
Who is Othello?
All teams nominate a team member.
Each nominated individual has 30 seconds to draw and label an enzyme with one type of inhibition occurring. The host will pick the winning team.
This enzyme is secreted by the stomach to aid in the digestion of protein.
What is pepsin/pepsinogen?
All teams nominate a team member.
Each nominated individual has 60 seconds to draw a labelled diagram of the heart. The host decides the winning team.
These alveolar cells secrete pulmonary surfactants to decrease surface tension in the alveoli and prevent collapse.
What are type 2 pneumocytes?
In the Netflix series Arcane, this Chem-baron is responsible for the production of shimmer.
Who is Silco?