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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Energy | The ability to do work |
| Chemical Reaction | one or more substances change to produce one or more different substances. |
| Reactant | If the reaction prodceeds in only one direction |
| Product | The end result of an experiment |
| Metabolism | the term used to describe all of the chemical reactions that occur in an organism |
| Activation Energy | In many chemical reactions, the amount of energy needed to start the reaction |
| Catalyst | Reduce the amount of activation energy that is needed for reaction to taken place |
| Enzyme | a protein or RNA molecule that speeds up metabolics with out being permanently changed or destroyed |
| Redox Reaction | reactions in which electrons are tranfered between atom are known as oxidation reduction reaction |
| Oxidation Reaction | a reactant loses one or more electrons, thus becoming more positive in charge |
| Reduction Reaction | a reactant gains one or more electrons, thus becoming more negative in charge |