Biochemistry in Living Organisms
a substance produced by a living organism which acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction.
What is an Enzyme
The monomers for carbohydrates
What is Monosaccharides?
The total mass of a group of organisms.
What is Biomass?
the principal molecule for storing and transferring energy in cells.
What is ATP?
The process by which green plants use carbon dioxide to obtain and create energy.
What is Photosynthesis
a molecule that is produced by a living organism.
What is Biomolecule?
The feeding position of an organism in a food chain.
What is Trophic Level?
the process by which organisms use oxygen to break down food molecules to get chemical energy for cell functions.
What is Cellular Respiration?
a substance that has a molecular structure consisting chiefly or entirely of a large number of similar units bonded together.
What is a Polymer?
Long Term Energy Source
What is lipids?
a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
What is Food Web?
a decrease in enzyme-related processes, enzyme production, or enzyme activity.
What is Enzyme Inhibitor
the formation of larger molecules from smaller reactants, accompanied by the loss of a water molecule.
What is Dehydration Synthesis?
The monomers for proteins
What is Amino Acids?
a sequence of organisms, each of which feeds on the previous one.
What is food chains?
a substance produced by a living organism which acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction.
What is Enzyme?
the five-carbon sugar molecule that helps form the phosphate backbone of DNA molecules.
What is Deoxyribose Sugar?
The monomers for Nucleic Acids
What is Nucleotides?
State the average amount of energy passed through each trophic level of a food chain.
the substance on which an enzyme acts.
What is Substrate?