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Practice Questions Enzymes Standards 1b 1h 4e 4f
1. How do enzymes contribute to chemical reactions in the cell?
2. Which structure is found in eukaryotes but not in prokaryotes?
3. Arrange these structures: animal cell, virus, and bacterial cell from the most
complex to the least complex?
4. What respective monomers are linked together to assemble proteins,
polysaccharides, and nucleic acids?
5. Name the part in the cell that synthesizes proteins to be exported from the cell?
6. Describe what enzymes do in living things?
7. Organisms can have thousands of types of proteins that form cellular structures or
act as chemical messengers. Describe how a cell can create so many kinds of
proteins.
8. List the factors that affect the activity of an enzyme.
9. List all the kinds of macromolecules (organic compounds) that are in the cell.
10. List the order of hierarchy from the universe to the energy string.
11. Describe the role of enzymes in a chemical reaction. Do the enzymes become part
of the new products?
12. Scientist are studying an enzyme involved in the repair of genetic material in the
nucleus. What type of biological molecule is the enzyme?
13. How do enzymes speed up a chemical reaction?
14. List all the 20 amino acids with their abbreviation and letter symbol.
15. .The picture above shows that pepsin is an enzyme in the stomach that breaks
down proteins in the stomach. At what pH and temperature is pepsin the most
active in the stomach?
16. Circle the one that is an amino acid.
Glutamic Acid
Thymine
Adenine
Uracil
17. Circle the largest entity from the list.
Quark
Tissue
Enzyme
Organ System
18. Actin is a protein involved in muscle contraction. Myelin is a protein involved in
nerve function. Why are the two proteins different from one another?
19. What monomers are linked together to assemble proteins?
20. What kind of macromolecule (organic compound) are enzymes?