8-10 Vocab Words

Question 1

Activation Energy

Answer 1

The energy used to start a chemical reaction

Question 2

Active Site

Answer 2

The site where a substrate binds in order to catalyze or speed up chemical reactions

Question 3

Allosteric Regulation

Answer 3

A substrate binds someplace other than the active site of the enzyme and makes it decrease in function

Question 4

Anabolic Pathway

Answer 4

Simple molecules turn into complex molecules using energy
Not Spontanous

Question 5

Catabolic Pathway

Answer 5

Complex molecules turn into simple molecules releasing energy

Question 6

Coenzyme

Answer 6

Enzymes attach to each other causing an increase in function

Question 7

Cofactor

Answer 7

A substance that helps an enzyme function better

Question 8

Competitive Inhibitor

Question 9

Cooperativity

Question 10

Endergonic Reaction

Answer 10

A reaction where energy is needed to work
Anabolic Reactions - Photosynthesis, Protosynethis, Rna, Dna

Question 11

Entropy

Answer 11

Randomness/Unavailability of a system

Question 12

Enzyme

Answer 12

A protein that acts as a catalyst that speeds up chemical reactions

Question 13

Exergonic reaction

Answer 13

A reaction with an output of energy
- Catabolic reactions
- Spontaneous

Question 14

Feedback Inhibition

Answer 14

An enzyme’s products makes it crowded so it makes it hard for a substrate to find to the enzyme, causing it the enzyme to decrease in rate of function