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By adding more substance that the enzyme is acting upon, it forces that enzyme to be faster in order to complete the process.
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Is it true that Enzymes are not consumed during a chemical reaction?
Correct. Enzymes help to speed up chemical reactions. They may speed them up, costing them some energy, but they are never used up.
How does the interaction between an enzyme and its substrate change a chemical reaction?
Enzymes speed up the chemical reactions because when it forms a complex with its substrates, it reduces the activation energy that the reaction needs to proceed. Remember that the reaction itself is not altered, only the rate of reaction, and that the enzyme is not used or altered in the reactions.
Why does enzyme specificity promote enzyme activity?
Because enzymes are specific and speed only one type of reaction.
What is the difference a reaction without an enzyme and a reaction with an enzyme?
The speed at which the reaction takes place. Many reactions, especially exergonic reactions, would take place naturally, but too slowly to help living cells carry out the work they need to do. So enzymes lower the activation energy needed to start the reaction and these reactions in the cell are speed-ed up enough for cellular work to be done.
What is the point of boiling a catalase?
boiling catalase denatures the enzyme making unable to function
What is chemical reaction in an enzyme?
to speed up a chemical reaction
Chemicals that speed up chemical reaction?
Enzyme or catalyst
What can speed up a reaction or lower the activation energy of a reaction and can digest things?
This would be an enzyme.
What will most likely happen if the amount of enzyme that catalyzes this reaction is increased?
The reaction will speed up.
An enzyme is a special kind of catalyst that works to do what?
speed up chemical reaction because of the lowered activation energy
During the chemical reaction starch is broken down into glucose What will most likely happen if the biochemist adds an enzyme to the reactants?
the reaction will speed up
How an enzyme helps to speed up chemical reaction?
by lowering the activation energy
What is a specific enzyme?
A specific enzyme is an enzyme that only changes the speed of ONE reaction. (It only acts on one particular substance that happens to be compatible with that enzyme) i.e. if enzyme A is specific to reaction A, it will change the speed of reaction A. However it will have no effect on any other reaction like reaction B or C.
How does an enzyme speed up its reaction?
Enzymes speed up a reaction by lowering the activation energy. This is the amount of energy required to start the reaction. By lowering the activation energy, the reaction can proceed much more quickly.
What are 3 factors that affect the speed of an enzyme catalyzed reaction?
3 factors that affect the speed of an enzyme catalysed reaction are: .Temperature .Enzyme Concentartion .Substrate concentration
A substance that can speed up a chemical reaction in a living organism?
An enzyme works to speed up chemical reactions in a living organism.
Enzymes increase the rate of a reaction by doing what?
An enzyme is a catalyst that speeds up a chemical reaction. It functions by lowering the activation energy required for a reaction to occur, and by reducing the activation energy, the reaction speeds up.
