Enzymes

Question 0

Enzymes monomers are?

Answer 0

Amino acids

Question 1

What are enzymes?

Answer 1

Enzymes are proteins that help molecules react with one another

Question 2

Enzymes are used by cells to do what?

Answer 2

Cells to trigger and control chemical reactions

Question 3

Without enzymes what would happen?

Answer 3

Several reactions in cells would never occur or happen too slowly to be useful

Question 4

What is a chemical reaction?

Answer 4

It’s the process of changing one set of chemicals into another set of chemicals by rearranging the atoms

Question 5

In a chemical reaction what is broken to form the products?

Answer 5

The reactants bonds are broken

Question 6

What is a catalyst?

Answer 6

It’s a substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction

Question 7

A catalyst lowers what?

Answer 7

Lowers the activation energy

Question 8

A catalyst participates in the reaction but does do what?

Answer 8

It doesn’t change itself

To be used over and over again

Question 9

What is activation energy

Answer 9

It’s the amount of energy needed to start a chemical reaction

Question 10

Catalysts speed up chemical reactions by?

Answer 10

Lowering the activation energy

Question 11

Enzymes are catalyst because they?

Answer 11

They lower the activation energy by holding molecules together to either help them bind or help them break apart

Question 12

To bind means to?

Answer 12

Synthesize

Question 13

To break apart means to?

Answer 13

Decompose

Question 14

What is a substrate?

Answer 14

Enzymes bind to or break molecules called substrates

Question 15

Substrates are the?

Answer 15

Reactants that are catalyzed by the enzyme

Question 16

What is the active site?

Answer 16

Each substrate and enzyme has a specific shape, therefore enzymes bind to substrates base on SHAPE

The site on the enzyme where the substrates bind

Question 17

What is the Lock and Key Hypothesis?

Answer 17

Enzymes bind to the substrates based on their complementary shape

The fit is so exact, that the active site and substrates are compared to a lock and key

Question 18

Most digestive enzymes are names for the?

Answer 18

The foods(molecules) they help react

Question 19

What are other examples of enzymes and what they break down?

Answer 19

Lactase 
Sucrase 
Amalyse
Lipase 
Pepsin

Question 20

Lactase breaks down what?

Answer 20

Lactase-breaks down lactose into glucose and galactose

Question 21

Sucrose breaks down?

Answer 21

Sucrase-breaks down sucrose(table sugar) into glucose and fructose

Question 22

Lipase breaks down?

Answer 22

Breaks down Ats

Question 23

Pepsin breaks down?

Answer 23

Breaks down proteins

Question 24

How are enzymes affected by the reaction?

Answer 24

Enzymes are NOT changed by the reactions, they catalyze

Question 25

How can enzymes be affected?

Answer 25

They work best at a specific temperature

Bad temperatures can cause enzymes to break down or change shape

Question 26

The break down of enzymes is called?

Answer 26

Denaturation

Question 27

Why are enzymes considered the body’s “workers”?

Answer 27

Nearly every reaction in your body is helped by an enzyme