Exam 1 Flashcards
The Cohesive property of water is due to what?
Hydrogen Bonds
T/F enzymes are carbohydrates that speed up reactions
FALSE
Enzymes have active sites for ______
substrates
what is protein catalysts?
enzymes
what is a reactant that is altered by an enzyme
substrate
chemical that lowers activation energy and increases rate of reaction
catalyst
absorbs/requires energy, products have more energy than reactants
anabolic reaction
releases energy, products have less energy than reactants
catabolic reaction
What affects enzyme function?
denaturation
making or breaking of chemical bonds, chemical bonds contain energy
chemical reaction
a nucleotide contains?
phosphate, 5-carbon sugar, nitrogeneous base
what are the nucleic acids
DNA and RNA
what do nucleic acids do?
store hereditary info
protein with more than 1 amino acid chain
quaternary protein structure
alpha helixes and pleated sheets attract
tertiary protein structure
what is a monomer or proteins
amino acids
the primary protein structure is also known as
the chain of amino acids
what are amino acid chains linked by H bonds, pleated sheets/alpha helixes
secondary protein structure
inserting of a water molecule to break down a polymer into monomers
dehydration hydrolysis