Web Enhanced Bio 100 Instructor Deborah Bird 1 Biomolecule Assignment Name ___________________________ Under the readings for unit 4 go to the Organic Chemistry reading to find these answers 1. What is a catalyst? 2. In what class of compounds do enzymes belong to in organic chemistry? 3. What happens to enzymes in cold temperatures? What happens in warm temperatures? 4. What organic molecule are the nutrients from your food actually used to make? 5. What is a substrate? 6. What does it mean that an enzyme is specific? 7. What is the active site? Web Enhanced Bio 100 Instructor Deborah Bird 2 8. Do enzymes actually participate in the chemical reaction or do they facilitate the reaction? 9. What are the two parts of respiration and where does each of these stages take place in the cell. (see drawing) 10. Are you producing inorganic compounds in the respiration process? 11. Give three uses for lipids in your metabolism. 12. What is the difference between a saturated fat and an unsaturated fat? 13. What are the two types of unsaturated fats? Explain the difference. 14. How do you take more a healthy oil, like safflower, and turn it into a much less healthy oil as margarine?
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