Describe this chemical. Is it a monosaccharide or a disaccharide?
Sucrose is a disaccharide. It is essentially table sugar. It is considered to be a nutrient.
True or False: Sucrose can easily pass through a human cell membrane.
False
This chemical is a ____________.
Monosaccharide (simple sugar)
_______________ is a biological catalyst that can __________________________.
An enzyme is a biological catalyst that can speed up metabolic reactions in organisms.
Catabolism is ____________.
The breaking of chemical bonds to produce smaller molecules from larger ones. (Digestion)
Anabolism is ____________.
the building of larger molecules by forming chemical bonds.
In biochemistry a substrate is _______________.
the chemical, or reactant, that goes into an enzyme.
What is an enzyme substrate complex?
The combination of the enzyme and the chemical that goes inside of it.
If the substrate is sucrose then the chemicals labeled A and B would be _________.
Fructose and Glucose
In the diagram what would be on the left side of the arrow?
Reactants or chemicals about to go through a chemical reaction.
In the diagram what is on the right side of the arrow?
Products or chemicals that are the result of a chemical reaction.
If this chemical reaction requires an enzyme what would another name for reactants be?
The substrate or substrates.
