Enzymes & Macros
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 type of cell makes up organisms like fungi, animals, and plants.
What is eukaryotic?
A cell spends most of its life doing its job, growing, and replicating its DNA in this phase.
What is interphase.
This is the diffusion of water molecules across a membrane.
What is osmosis?
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?
This is the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
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?
Carbohydrates (also known as sugars) usually end in this suffix.
What is -ose?
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?
If a cell has a no nucleus and is very small, it is likely this type of cell.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
These are the two identical "arms" in a replicated chromosome that are divided into new daughter cells during mitosis.
What are sister chromatids?
These are the generic names for the monomers and polymers of proteins.
What are amino acids and polypeptides?
A molecule is considered "organic" if it contains this element.
What is carbon?
Phospholipids have this many fatty acid tails.
What is two?
What is the cell wall?
This is the phase after mitosis where the cell membrane pinches completely and two new daughter cells are produced.
What is cytokinesis?
This type of reaction (catabolic or anabolic) joins monomers together to create polymers.
What is anabolic?
Enzymes work by lowering this in a reaction.
What is activation energy?
What is semipermeable or selectively permeable?
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?
Name the phases associated with mitosis in their sequential order.
What is Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase?
There are this many cells in a typical human body.
What is 30 trillion?