Enzymes Biological Catalysts - Biochemistry Concepts and Connections | Biology+

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Biochemistry

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Set 1: Biochemistry and the Language of Chemistry

Set 2: The Chemical Foundation of Life: Weak Interactions in an Aqueous Environment

Set 3: The Energetics of Life

Set 4: Nucleic Acids

Set 5: Introduction to Proteins: the Primary Level of Protein Structure

Set 6: The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins

Set 7: Protein Function and Evolution

Set 8: Enzymes: Biological Catalysts

Set 9: Carbohydrates: Sugars, Saccharides, Glycans

Set 10: Lipids, Membranes, and Cellular Transport

Set 11: Chemical Logic of Metabolism

Set 12: Carbohydrate Metabolism: Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, Glycogen Metabolism, and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway

Set 13: The Citric Acid Cycle

Set 14: Electron Transport, Oxidative Phosphorylation, and Oxygen Metabolism

Set 15: Photosynthesis

Set 16: Lipid Metabolism

Set 17: Interorgan and Intracellular Coordination of Energy Metabolism in Vertebrates

Set 18: Amino Acid and Nitrogen Metabolism

Set 19: Nucleotide Metabolism

Set 20: Mechanisms of Signal Transduction

Set 21: Genes, Genomes, and Chromosomes

Set 22: DNA Replication

Set 23: DNA Repair, Recombination, and Rearrangement

Set 24: Transcription and Post-Transcriptional Processing

Set 25: Information Decoding: Translation and Post-Translational Protein Processing

Set 26: Regulation of Gene Expression

Set 8 Enzymes Biological Catalysts

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Set 8 Enzymes Biological Catalysts

(Multiple Choice)

Free

The lock and key model of substrate binding and enzymatic catalysis explains:

A) the release of product.
B) substrate specificity.
C) formation of a transition state.
D) the catalytic mechanism.
E) structural changes that occur on substrate binding.

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(True False)

Free

Pyruvate carboxylase is an example of the ligase class of enzymes.

Answer

(Short Answer)

Free

In a favorable reaction the free energy of the products is ________ than the free energy of the reactants.

Answer