Prefixes, Suffixes & Roots

Enzyme Lingo

Organic Compounds

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Molecules of Life

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What are through filtration and evaporation?

Name two ways you could separate salt from water in a

solution of salt water.

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What is mono-?

This means one.

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What is saccharide?

This means sugar.

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What is poly-?

This means many.

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What is di-?

This is means two.

$1000What is macro-?

This means large.

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What is a protein?

An enzyme is an example of this type of organic

compound.

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What is the substrate?

The reactant (substance) that is catalyzed by using

enzymes.

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What is an enzyme?

A type of protein that speeds up the rate of a chemical

reaction.

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What is the active site?

The area on an enzyme wehre the substrate binds.

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What is speed up the break down of food so that you can get energy for your cells and

make waste more quickly?

This is what enzymes do for your digestive system.

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What is a disaccharide?

A double sugar that is formed from through the condensation reaction

between two monosaccharides.

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What is a carbohydrate?

An organic compound made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a 1:2:1 ratio. Pastas and breads are full of them.

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What is a nucleic acid?

A large, complex organic compound responsible for storing and transferring information in the cell. There are two

types: DNA and RNA.

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What is a nucleotide?

The monomer unit of a nucleic acid which is made up of a phospate

group, a five-carbon sugar, and a nitrogenous base.

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What are fatty acids?

These are the unbranched carbon chains that make up a

lipid (fat).

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What are bases?

The term alkalinity refers to these.

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What is pH?

It literally means “potential hydrogen.”

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What is an acid?

The properties include: gives off H+ in solution, tastes sour, can be corrosive to

metals, and turn blue litmus red.

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What is gives off OH- ions in solution, taste bitter, and turns red litmus blue?

These are three properties of a basic substance.

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What are buffers?

Our bodies have these specific types of chemicals that maintain homeostasis in terms of pH by neutralizing acids and bases.

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What are organic compounds?

Compounds that are primarily made of carbon.

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What is a monomer?

A simple molecule that can combine with other

molecules to build bigger molecules.

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What are polymers?

The GAK and slime that we made last year are examples of these and gummy bears

too.

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What are macromolecules?

A very large organic compound composed of hundreds or thousands

of atoms. They include carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and

nucleic acids.

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What is ATP?

Energy currency $$$$

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What is a monosaccharide?

A type of simple sugar (carb) that contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a 1:2:1 ratio. An

example is glucose.

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What is an amino acid?

This monomer unit of a protein that is composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,

and nitrogen. They are the building blocks of proteins.

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What is a polysaccharide?

A type of complex sugar (carb) that is composed of three or more monosaccharides. An

example is glycogen.

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What are lipids?

Examples of this type of macromolecule include

triglycerides, phospholipids, waxes, and steroids.

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What is DNA is a double helix whereas RNA is only single stranded?

This is the major structural difference between DNA and RNA.

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