Lesson Flashcards: Enzymes

Inactive forms of enzymes that need certain substances or conditions available to activate them

Energy that is associated with movement

A biological catalyst that speeds up the rate of reactions without being used up

A substance that lowers the activation energy required for a chemical reaction to occur without being used up itself so that the overall reaction occurs at a faster rate

The substance complementary in shape to an enzyme’s active site upon which an enzyme acts

A term describing that only substrates of a specific shape will fit in an enzyme’s active site and undergo a chemical reaction

The process that occurs when an enzyme’s active site changes shape so that it no longer has a complementary shape to its specific substrate molecule

The region of an enzyme molecule to which a specific substrate will bind and undergo a chemical reaction