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Enzymes
Chemical Reactions
Macromolecules
Carbon
Miscellanous
100
A substance that speeds up chemical reactions
What is a catalyst
100
The type of reaction in which energy is absorbed.
What is endothermic
100
Organic compound with carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in a 1:2:1 ratio
What is a carbohydrate
100
Type of bond that carbon forms with carbon
What is covalent
100
Organic compound whose function includes stored energy and biological membranes
What is a lipid
200
The special area where a substrate binds to an enzyme
What is the active site
200
The type of reaction in which energy is released
What is exothermic
200
An organic compound responsible for storing and transmitting genetic information
What is a nucleic acid
200
The number of valence electrons in carbon
What is four
200
Organic compound whose functions include fighting disease, transporting material across cell membrane, and building/repairing bones and muscles.
What is a protein
300
The model in which one specific substrate is shaped to one specific enzyme
What is the lock and key model
300
The energy that is needed to get a reaction started.
What is activation energy
300
Organic compound that has carbon, hydrogen and oxygen but NOT in a 1:2:1 ratio.
What is a lipid
300
Type of lipid that makes up part of the cell membrane
What is a phospholipid
400
The substrate is called this after a reaction has occurred.
What is a product
400
Monomers join with polymers and water is a product
What is dehydration synthesis
400
Organic compound with carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus.
What is a protein
400
The elements found in all 4 organic compounds that we discussed.
What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen
500
The name for what we call the combination of the enzyme and the substrate
What is the enzyme substrate complex
500
Polymers break down to monomers and water is added to the reaction.
What is hydrolysis
500
Process by which polymers are formed from monomers
What is polymerization
500
The lipid that you have when carbon double bonds with another carbon atom.
What is unsaturated
500
The three factors that can change the shape of a protein, affecting the way it binds with a substrate.
What is temperature, pH, and inhibitors