Chemistry of Life
A type of atom.
The chemical that an enzyme acts upon.
What is a substrate?
This input to cellular respiration comes from our lungs.
What is Oxygen gas?
What is the circulatory system?
This organ pumps blood to circulate it through your body.
What is the heart?
Fats, oils, and waxes.
What are Lipids?
The enzyme that breaks down lipids.
What is a lipase?
Energy.
This organ system is responsible for taking in O2 and removing CO2 from our bodies.
What is the respiratory system?
These organs filter the blood to produce urine.
What are kidneys?
A small sugar used by the mitochondria for making ATP.
What is glucose?
When a protein loses its shape
What is denaturing (to be denatured)?
The organelle where cellular respiration takes place.
What is the mitochondria?
What is the immune or lymphatic system?
The liver produces enzymes, and stores them in this organ.
What is the gallbladder?
The building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The location on the enzyme where it meets the substrate.
What is the active site?
These are the byproducts of cellular respiration.
What are CO2 and H2O?
This organ system keeps us from getting dehydrated.
What is the excretory system?
This organ detoxifies the body by producing many different types of enzymes.
What is the liver?
The type of chemical bond that turns Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms into molecules.
What are covalent bonds?
The enzyme that stops our hair from greying.
What is catalase?
What is muscle tissue?
This organ system uses hormones to send messages throughout the body.
What is the endocrine system?
These organs secrete hormones.