Enzymes
Enzymes are complex molecules that speed up chemical reactions in the body, and are often called this two word term.
What is a biological catalyst?
The cell membrane is composed of this polar molecule.
What is a phospholipid?
This is the macromolecule that stores genetic information.
What are nucleic acids?
A cell spends most of its life doing its job, growing, and replicating its DNA in this phase.
What is interphase.
This type of cell makes up organisms like fungi, animals, and plants.
What is eukaryotic?
Most enzymes are identifiable by this suffix at the end of the name of the enzyme.
What is -ase?
This region of the phospholipid is hydrophobic.
What are the fatty acid tails?
A molecule is considered "organic" if it contains this element.
What is carbon?
This is the product at the end of telophase.
What are two new nuclei?
This is the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
This is the region where substrates bind on an enzyme.
What is the active site?
This region of a phospholipid is hydrophilic.
What is the phospate head?
Carbohydrates (also known as sugars) usually end in this suffix.
What is -ose?
These are the two identical "arms" in a replicated chromosome that are divided into new daughter cells during mitosis.
What are sister chromatids?
What is the cell wall?
When pH and temperature conditions are not ideal, an enzyme will...
What is denature / change shape so that they are no longer functional?
Phospholipids have this many fatty acid tails.
What is two?
This type of reaction (catabolic or anabolic) joins monomers together to create polymers.
What is anabolic?
This is the phase after mitosis where the cell membrane pinches completely and two new daughter cells are produced.
What is cytokinesis?
This is the loose, thread-like form that DNA takes in the nucleus of a cell when it is NOT actively dividing.
What is chromatin?
Enzymes work by lowering this in a reaction.
What is activation energy?
What is semipermeable or selectively permeable?
This is an example of a reaction where a large macromolecule is broken down into its monomers using water (for example, starch being broken down into molecules of glucose).
What is hydrolysis?
Name the phases associated with mitosis in their sequential order.
What is Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase?
These are the three parts of the cell theory.
What are: all living things are made of cells, all cells come from preexisting cells, and cells are the most basic unit of life?