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cfarina-biochemistry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Activation Energy | minimum amount of energy required to trigger a chemical reaction |
| Active Site | region of an enzyme into which a particular substrate fits |
| Carbohydrate | organic compound made of sugar molecules |
| Conformation | the shape or structure of something, esp. an animal |
| Dehydration Synthesis | In chemistry and the biological sciences, a dehydration reaction is usually defined as a chemical reaction that involves the loss of water from the reacting molecule. Dehydration reactions are a subset of elimination reactions |
| Enzyme | specialized protein that catalyzes the chemical reactions of a cell |
| Hydrogen Bond | bond created by the weak attraction of a slightly positive hydrogen atom to a slightly negative portion of another molecule |
| Hydrolysis | the chemical breakdown of a compound due to reaction with water |
| Lipid | one of a class of water-avoiding compounds |
| Locke and Key Mechanism | any of a class of organic compounds that are fatty acids or their derivatives and are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents. They include many natural oils, waxes, and steroids. |
| Marcomolecules | a molecule containing a very large number of atoms, such as a protein, nucleic acid, or synthetic polymer |
| Monomer | small molecular unit that is the building block of a larger molecule |
| Monossacharide | sugar containing one sugar unit |
| Nucleic Acid | a complex organic substance present in living cells, esp. DNA or RNA, whose molecules consist of many nucleotides linked in a long chain |
| Nucleotide | building block (monomer) of nucleic acid polymers |
| Organic Molecule | carbon-based molecule |
| Polymer | long chain of small molecular units (monomers) |
| Protein | polymer constructed from a set of 20 amino acid monomers |
| Substrate | : specific reactant acted on by an enzyme |