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What chemical reactions are important for the synthesis and breakdown of biological molecules?
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What do you call the molecules which make reactions work such as the breakdown of food molecules?
Those types of molecules are called enzymes.
Molecules which serve as chemicals to make reaction work- like the breakdown of food molecules?
They are called enzymes. They aren't necessarily considered molecules, but I suppose they are, perhaps very large ones. These enzymes act as a catalyst to speed the decompositions along. Stomach acid helps by oxidising the food as well as creating the environment for the proteins to function.
Do catabolic reactions use energy to synthesize large molecules?
No, anabolic reactions build larger molecules from smaller molecules.
Is dehydrogenation reaction a biological oxidation?
Biological oxidations are dehydrogenation reactions.
What chemical reactions that break down molecules into smaller ones?
The type of reaction responsible for the breakdown of large molecules into smaller ones is referred to as the catabolic reaction or catabolism.
When biological molecules engage in condensation such reactions?
synthesis reactions
How are atoms and molecules affected by chemical reactions?
The molecules explode.
What is metabolism cell?
All of chemical reactions in cells breakdown molecules and make molecules.
What group of biological molecules can speed up chemical reactions by lowering a reactions activation energy?
Biological catalysts are called 'enzymes'.
What do you call the molecules which make reactions work such as the breakdown of food molecules?
Those types of molecules are called enzymes.
What of the functions in human cells involve chemical reactions?
Many functions in human cells involve chemical reactions, including metabolism, protein synthesis, DNA replication, and cell signaling. These chemical reactions are vital for maintaining cellular homeostasis, producing energy, synthesizing essential molecules, and carrying out various biological processes.
Is it true that enzymes are a protein that acts as a biological catalyst?
Yes; enzymes can be simple or complex molecules that serve to catalyze biological reactions.
Metabolism refers to all of what reactions that occur in cells?
All of chemical reactions in cells breakdown molecules and make molecules.
What protein speeds up certain chemical reactions?
Amylase helps speed up breakdown of starch molecules.
How do you determine amount of enzyme consumed in a reaction?
There is no catalyst that is consumed in reaction which it is catalysing. In other reactions, eg. breakdown reactions, they do not catalyse their own breakdown! Enzymes are (bio)catalysts mainly as special protein molecules. In the reactions that ARE catalized they are not consumed, otherwise they were not 'catalists' but 'reactants'.
Which group of biological molecules can speed up chemical reactions by lowering a reaction's activation energy?
Enzymes
Molecules which serve as chemicals to make reaction work- like the breakdown of food molecules?
They are called enzymes. They aren't necessarily considered molecules, but I suppose they are, perhaps very large ones. These enzymes act as a catalyst to speed the decompositions along. Stomach acid helps by oxidising the food as well as creating the environment for the proteins to function.
