2.1.1 Biochemistry and metabolism

Question 1

What is a risk factor?

Answer 1

Factor that increases your chance of developing a particular disease

Question 2

What happened to food that you eat?

Answer 2

1. Become part of your body = after being digested, they then are rebuilt to form the different parts of the organism
2. Used to provide the energy needed to drive metabolism

Question 3

Why is it possible for carbon molecules to form a variety of molecules?

Answer 3

can bond together to form rings and chains, these can form many molecules because of this multiple-bonding features it can from the basis of all biological molecules

Question 4

What is metabolism?

Answer 4

sum total of all the metabolic reactions taking place in the cells of an organism