Across
- 4. best; the most favorable condition
- 5. a type of macromolecule that includes fats and oils
- 6. energy required to start a reaction (two words)
- 8. monomer of nucleic acids
- 9. a measure of how active an enzyme is (two words)
- 10. the shape or build of something
- 11. one of the four types of macromolecule; an example is sugar
- 12. what you start with in a chemical reaction
- 13. a large molecule containing carbon
- 14. the part on an enzyme that a substrate binds to (two words)
- 15. represented by a → in chemical reaction
- 17. the point at which all the enzyme active sites are filled by substrate (two words)
- 19. monomer of protein (two words)
- 20. a single unit that can be bonded to other similar units to make a polymer
Down
- 1. the purpose of something; what something does
- 2. what you end up with in a chemical reaction
- 3. a substance made up of many, repeating units
- 7. a process that changes one set of chemicals to another (two words)
- 8. polymer of nucleotides; function is to store genetic information
- 10. part of a whole
- 16. reactant that binds to an enzyme
- 17. one of the functions of lipid and carbs (two words)
- 18. polymer of amino acid