3.What Is the Monomer for Carbs? List an Example

PreAP Biology

Chapter 2

TGT Questions

1. What property(s) of water help it to climb up a redwood tree? Or move through your veins and capillaries?

2.What is the name of the chemical reaction that joins monomers, dimers and/or polymers? Is water used or created in this reaction? Finally, what about energy? Is it USED or RELEASED?

3.What is the monomer for Carbs? List an example

4.What kinds of molecules dissolve in water?

5.What is an exergonic (exothermic) reaction? What type of reaction is it typically paired with? Why?

6. What is it called when a molecule other than the substrate occupies the active site?

7. Out of the three types of bonds we talked about which is the weakest? The stronger bonds?

8.Why is water a fluid at room temperature?

9.What molecule does AMP become when it undergoes a condensation reaction that adds a phosphate group to it?

10.What is the difference between an independent and dependent variable?

11.What kind of molecule are most enzymes?

12.Cellulose is found in plant cell walls and is composed of many sugars bonded together. What type of Carb is it?

13.What is the purpose of a control group?

14.Water attracted to other molecules of water is called ______

15.What is organic chemistry (what does organic mean??)?

16.What is a polypeptide?

17.What is the name of the bond holding amino acids together?

18.What is the function of enzymes?

19.What is the name of the chemical reaction that splits up polymers, releases energy and uses water in the process?

20.What is the monomer for a nucleic acid?

21.Where is the “useful” energy in an ATP molecule found?

22.What is allosteric inhibition?

23.What is a coenzyme?

24.What are two ways you can measure enzymes effect on the rate of reaction?

25.What three elements are found in all organic macromolecules?

26.What causes surface tension?

27.Why are water molecules polar?

28.As the pH of a solution drops, what do you know about the H+ concentration?

29.What is the active site?

30.Name two factors that can alter the rate of an enzymatic reaction.

31.What does the term hydrophilic mean?

32.What is the relationship between protein shape and function? If two proteins have similar shape, can you assume anything about the functions of those proteins?

33.What is primary structure in proteins? Draw & explain it.

34.When graphing, what goes on the Y axis? X axis?

35.What level of protein structure has coils OR folds?

36.What is the difference between ionic, covalent, and hydrogen bonding?

37.What determines a protein’s shape?

38.What types of bonds account for the secondary and tertiary structure of a protein?

39.Food has ______energy, while muscle contraction involves ______energy.

40.How does ATP help in reaction coupling?

41.Why can your cells break down starch but not cellulose?

42. What type of bond shares electrons unevenly?

43. Where are the positive charges and negative charges on water molecules?

44. What pH range are acids? Bases? Neutral?

45. How do you know just by looking at a name that something is an enzyme?

46. What is an independent variable? Dependent variable?

47. Define Biology.

48. In which group of macromolecule are phosphates found?

49. In which group of macromolecules is nitrogen found?

50. What is the monomer for a protein?

51. What is hydrogen bonding? Where is it in water molecules?

52. For each of the marcomolecules, list the elements consistently found.

53. What three things are required for a hypothesis to be valid?

54. Which organic macromolecule would be ideal to keep water in? (what’s not going to react w/water...is hydrophobic)

55. Where is genetic information stored?

56. In the graph below, a scientist is measuring the rate of reaction. What are some possible reasons for the amount of change of the amount product produced between 3 & 6 minutes?

57. In the graph above, what else (besides product) could be measured in order to determine the reaction rate?

58. In the graph below, which letter labels the activation energy required WITHOUT an enzyme present? Which letter represents the amount of energy WITH an enzyme present?What does this graph illustrate about activation energy and enzymes?