Bio Enzymes

Suggested flashcards

1. How do you recognize carbohydrate, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids? How do you distinguish the monomer of each molecule from the polymer? You may want to make an extra large flashcard on this topic. Or you could flashcards for parts of this topic

2. How do you recognize carbohydrate and lipids?

3. How do you recognize carbohydrate monomers, carbohydrate polymers, lipid monomers, and lipid polymers

4. How do you recognize proteins

5. How do you recognize protein monomers and polymers

6. How do you recognize nucleic acids

7. How do you draw an amino acid and label carboxyl group, amino group, and R group?

8. How do you draw a polypeptide (a protein polymer) and label a peptide bond?

9. Definition of dehydration.

10. Definition of hydrolysis.

11. What allows each protein to have its unique function (for example, transport, cell recognition, defense, speeding up reactions as an enzyme)?

12. What gives each protein its unique shape?

13. Where do you find hydrophobic amino acids in a regular protein in water?

14. Where do you find hydrophilic amino acids in a regular protein in water?

15. Where do you find hydrophobic amino acids in a regular protein in water?

16. Where do you find hydrophilic amino acids in a regular protein in water?

17. Enzyme

18. Active site

19. Substrate 

20. Product

21. Transition state

22. Energy of the transition state (aka activation energy)

23. Denaturing

24. Why is there an optimal temperature, pH, and salt concentration for an enzyme?

25. How do you tell the optimal temperature, pH, and salt concentration for an enzyme from a graph of amount of product over time

26. How do you tell the optimal temperature, pH, and salt concentration for an enzyme from a graph of enzyme activity or rate of product formation over temperature, pH, or salt concentration?