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The multi-step, energy yielding conversion of glucose to pyruvic acid - Answers
Glycolysis
Negatively charged subatomic particle? - Answers electron
Components that contribute to ATP - Answers Adenine, ribose, and phosphate
An enzyme as a ___ that alters the rate of a reaction without being changed by the
reaction. - Answers Catalyst
A redox reaction involves the coupling of - Answers oxidation and reduction
proteins that lose their 3D structure as a consequence of change in the environmental
conditions such as excessive heat or salt - Answers denaturation
the opposite of catabolism is - Answers anabolism
NAD is reduced to ___ in the preparatory reactions preceding the Krebs cycle -
Answers NADH
Carbons found from glucose at the end of glycolysis - Answers two pyruvic acids
represents cofactors - Answers coenzymes, small organic molecules, metal ions
methods of lowering activation energy in biological systems from most to least
effective - Answers 1. increasing enzyme concentration
2. increasing substrate concentration
3. increasing thermal energy via heat
Term for a specific molecule on which an enzyme acts - Answers substrate
water being used to help break the bonds found between two compounds - Answers
hydrolysis
2 levels of protein structure that principally determine the active site of an enzyme -
Answers tertiary and Quaternary
suffix that denotes an enzyme - Answers -ase
compound that connects anabolic and catabolic reactions - Answers ATP
Krebs cycle occurs in the ___ of eukaryotic cells and the ___ of bacteria - Answers
mitochondrion; cytoplasm
proteins composed of amino acids, acts as cellular catalyst/ biological catalyst -
Answers enzyme
protein part of an enzyme which requires a coenzyme/cofactor to function - Answers
apoenzyme
primary photosynthesizers in terrestrial ecosystems - Answers green plants
locations where proteins can enter catabolic cellular respiration - Answers Krebs
cycle and glycolysis
incorporates nutrients through biosynthesis in cells - Answers anabolism
ATP has ___ phosphate groups - Answers 3
ATP is composed of a sugar called ___, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base
called ___ - Answers ribose, adenine
2 levels of protein structure that are damaged by denaturation - Answers tertiary and
Quaternary
to enter the krebs cycle, pyruvate must - Answers be bound to coenzyme A
which method of cell division do prokaryotic cells perform? - Answers binary fission
enzyme substrate interactions are sometimes referred to as "___ and key" interaction -
Answers lock
most enzymes are named to reflect - Answers the action of the enzyme
region on an enzyme that binds substrate - Answers active/catalytic site