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Organic Compounds, Macromolecules, Enzyme Review
1. What is a monomer?
2. How can you tell if a molecule is organic or inorganic?
3. What are the four categories of organic macromolecules?
4. Which three atoms are found in all of the organic macromolecules?
5. Explain dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis reactions.
6. Draw the following molecules: fats, nucleotide, amino acid, and monosaccharide.
7. The word saccharide means sugar. What is the difference between a monosaccharide, a disaccharide,
and a polysaccharide?
8. What type of carbohydrates does your body use for quick energy? What types of carbohydrates does
your body use for energy storage? Which carbohydrate can be used for both?
9. How do plants store polysaccharides for energy (as what molecule)? How do animals store
polysaccharides for energy (as what molecule)?
10. What is cellulose and why is it important?
11. What is the difference between saturated fats and unsaturated fats? What do you think polyunsaturated
fats are?
12. Draw a molecule of glucose.
13. What is the monomer of carbohydrates? What is the name of the polymer?
14. Draw and Label the three parts of a nucleotide. What is this a monomer of?
15. Draw and Label the three parts of a amino acid. What is this a monomer of?
16. Draw and label the monomer of fat.
17. What is the function of fats?
18. What is an example of a fat?
19. What is the function of steroids?
20. What is an example of a steriod?
21. What is the function of carbohydrates?
22. What is an example of a carbohydrate?
23. What is the function of protein?
24. What is an example of protein?
25. What is a polypeptide?
26. What is the function of nucleic acids?
27. What is an example of nucleic acids?
28. Describe the function and then general process of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction.
29. Define substrate.
30. Define active site.
31. What is a chemical reaction?
32. How are the reactants and products different in a chemical reaction?
33. Think about a key opening a padlock and answer the following questions
a. What would represent the enzyme (the padlock or the key)?
b. What would represent the substrate (the padlock or the key)?
c. Which part of the padlock would represent the active site?
34. Explain why enzymes can only function properly within a certain range of temperature and pH.
35. Enzymes are one example of which type of macromolecule?
36. What does it mean to say that an enzyme is denatured? What conditions can denature an enzyme?
37. What is activation energy? What do enzymes do to a chemical reaction’s activation energy?
38. What was the enzyme in our potato lab? What chemical reaction did it speed up?
39. How did you know if the reaction was happening?
40. Explain why hydrogen peroxide would or would not be a good substance to put on a cut? Does it
actually clean the wound?