Biology Milestone/EOC Review
Biochemistry
(AKS 1a, 1a1)
What do Carbohydrates provide us with?

What are the building blocks/monomers of carbohydrates?

Compare monosaccharides, disaccharides, and a polysaccharides.

In what form do animals store starch....and where in the body?

In what form do plants store carbohydrates in their cell walls?

Sketch a glucose molecule. What is the chemical formula for glucose?
What do lipids provide us with?

What are the building blocks/
monomers of lipids?

Describe the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats?

Sketch the structural formula for a glycerol molecule and a fatty acid molecule.
What do proteins provide us with?

What are the building blocks/monomers of proteins?

Sketch
an amino acid: Label the amino group, carboxyl group, and “R” group.

Compare a dipeptide and a polypeptide.

What is a peptide bond?
Compare and contrast dehydration synthesis (condensation) and hydrolysis.
What is the importance of “Activation Energy” in
metabolic function?

Define: potential, kinetic, and chemical energy

What is the relationship between chemical bonds and potential energy

What is the difference between endergonic and exergonic reactions?
Why are catalysts important for metabolism and home
ostasis?

What is an enzyme?

List some characteristics of an enzyme.

Draw a graph with 1 line showing a reaction WITHOUT an enzyme catalyst and another line WITH an enzyme
catalyst.
Sketch a model comparing and contrasting
the “lock
-and
-key” and “induced fit” models of enzyme activity.

Be sure to label and define active site, enzyme substrate complex, reactants and products.

Be sure to label your model as a dehydration synthesis reaction or hydrolysis reaction.

Be sure to
“name”
your substrate and
“name”
your enzyme appropriately.

You can make up a name!
What are three factors that affect enzyme activity?

Sketch 3 simple graphs to show how each impacts enzyme activity.

What does
denature
mean?

What is an enzyme inhibitor?