Enzymes

Question 1

What speeds up a reaction?

Answer 1

Catalyst

Question 2

Nonprotein enzyme helpers?

Answer 2

Cofactor

Question 3

Organic cofactor?

Answer 3

Coenzyme

Question 4

Protein component of enzyme?

Answer 4

Apoenzyme

Question 5

The reactant at the beginning of enzyme process?

Answer 5

Substrate

Question 6

When the substrate and enzyme are bound

Answer 6

Enzyme-Substrate Complex

Question 7

Where enzyme and substrate bind

Answer 7

Active Site

Question 8

Initial energy needed to start a chemical reaction

Answer 8

Activation Energy EA

Question 9

How do enzymes catalyze a reaction?

Answer 9

By lowering the activation energy barrier

Question 10

What happens when an enzyme gets too warm?

Answer 10

Denaturation

Question 11

Inhibitors: It binds to the active site

Answer 11

Competitive

Question 12

Inhibitors: It binds to another part of enzyme, causing it to change shape

Answer 12

Non-Competitive

Question 13

It may inhibit or stimulate an enzyme’s activity when a regulatory molecule binds to a protein at one site and affects the protein’s function at another site

Answer 13

Allosteric Regulation