Enzymes and Chemical Equations

Question	Answer
Chemical Reactions	process that changes one set of chemicals into another
Subscript	Number below a element, shows how many atoms are present
Coefficients	Number of molecules (exp. 8H2O is 8 molecules of h2O)
Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy	energy and matter is neither created nor destroyed.
Chemical Equation	reactants, with the help of RXN, that produce products (exp. photosynthesis)
Reactants	items going into a reaction
Products	What comes out of a reaction
RXN (reaction)	Activation energy used to create a reaction
Activation Energy	needed to start a chemical reaction, 'push' that's needed. (exp. sun for photosynthesis)
Metabolism	reactions are constantly occurring in the human body
Catalysts	chemicals that speed up reactions by lowering activation energy
Enzymes	organic catalysts that are complex proteins that speed up reactions and slow down activation energy (recall snowman) they can be used multiple times
Protein rule with Enzymes	enzyme's roles are described by their shape because they are a protein. Enzymes speed up reactions, they don't change reactions.
Active Site	Like a keyhole, fits substrates into the enzyme
Substrate	replaces the reactant in reactions that have an enzyme involved.

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