Know the difference

Most of the times, we take things for granted. Go through the alphabetical list given below and think of the difference between them.  

• Active site, Allosteric site

• Anomer, Epimer, Enantiomer, Tautomer

• Bile salt, Bilepigment

• Bisphosphate, Diphosphate

• Coenzyme, prosthetic group

• Competitive inhibition, Non- Competitive inhibition

• D- glucose, d-glucose

• Domain, Motif

• Glucokinase, Hexokinase

• Gulonic acid, Gluconic acid, Glucoric acid, Glutaric acid, Glutamic acid

• Heparin, Heparan sulfate

• Inulin, Insulin

• Keratin, Keratan sulfate

• Ligase, Lyase

• Missense, Nonsense mutation

• Mitochondrial DNA, Nuclear DNA

• mRNA, mi RNA

• Phosphatase, Phosphorylase

• Pseudopeptide, Isopeptide

• Renin, Rennin

• Ribosome, Ribozyme

• Serine kinase, Serine protease

• Synthase, Synthetase

I will keep on updating this list. So come often to this page.