BioChemistry

Just a Little Mistake
Using the links listed below, answer the folowing questions:

1. What causes the blue color in the people? 2. Give a brief description of how enzymes work. 3. Describe the function of normal hemoglobin. 4. What causes the disorder methemoglobinemia? 5. What types of treatments are there? 6. Is there a cure?

Use the last link to view the word puzzle. Complete it on a sheet of paper and use the numbered letters to answer this last question.

7. What is the name of the enzyme that functions in us to allow us to not be blue?

Resources
Enzymes http://www.harpercollins.com.au/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0732264618&tc=cx

Methemoglobinemia http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/peds/pidl/hemeonc/metheme.htm

Hemoglobin http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/hemoglobin.html

County Health Center [|http://www.people.virginia.edu/%7Erjh9u/kyblues.html|http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/kyblues.html]

Puzzled Blue http://school.discovery.com/puzzles19/yamib208/html/51885akqnt.html