Enzyme Worksheet

Question 0

What are the building blocks of enzymes

Answer 0

Amino acids

Question 1

Enzymes are

Answer 1

Proteins that promote chemical reactions

Question 2

What organelle is the site of protein synthesis

Answer 2

Ribosomes

Question 3

Each enzyme is ______ for only one substrate or set of substrates

Answer 3

Specific

Question 4

What are substrates

Answer 4

Reactions that need the help of enzymes

Question 5

What is the active site of an enzyme

Answer 5

Binds to the substrate and provides a favorable environment for the reaction to occur

Question 6

During chemical reactions enzymes do not

Answer 6

Change and you’re not used up

Question 7

Enzymes may help

Answer 7

Bricktown substrates or combined substrates into new molecules

Question 8

What might happen to an enzyme that is exposed to high temperature or high or low pH

Answer 8

Enzymes, like other proteins, may denature

Question 9

What are the two functions of enzymes

Answer 9

Lower the energy required to activate the reaction

Speed up the reaction

Question 10

Define activation energy

Answer 10

Energy required to get a reaction started

Question 11

Reactants are called

Answer 11

Substrate

Question 12

Enzyme concentration activity

Answer 12

Rate of activity is limited by amount of enzymes available in the cell

Question 13

Substrate concentration activity

Answer 13

Rate of activity is limited by amount of substrate available

Question 14

PH activity

Answer 14

Enzymes can only work within a narrow pH range

Question 15

Temperature activity

Answer 15

Enzymes will only perform under a limited range

Question 16

Inhibitors

Answer 16

Enzyme activity depends on how much competition there is for the active site

Question 17

Definition of denatured

Answer 17

It’s 3-D shape- Knable to promote chemical reaction