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What uses oxygen to detoxify harmful substances?
Peroxisomes use oxygen to detoxify harmful substances. These organelles and microbodies are found in the vast majority of eukaryotic cells.
What toxic forms of oxygen is improperly paired with the detoxifying enzyme or molecule?
a Peroxide anion (O2-2)
What happens to hydrogen peroxide in the body?
It gets rapidly broken down into oxygen and water by the enzyme peroxidase.
What three substances are needed for bioluminescence to occur?
Luciferin, and enzyme called luciferase. Bioluminescence does not occur in the absence of oxygen.
In photosynthesis the oxygen atoms from where are released as oxygen?
Oxygen released comes directly from the water used as a reactant. A plant enzyme splits water into protons, electrons and oxygen, with the electrons replenishing lost electrons in pigments, protons used to maintain the electrochemical gradient, and oxygen released as waste.
What uses oxygen to detoxify harmful substances?
Peroxisomes use oxygen to detoxify harmful substances. These organelles and microbodies are found in the vast majority of eukaryotic cells.
What organelles use molecular oxygen to convert and detoxify harmful substances?
The organelles that uses molecular oxygen to convert and detoxify harmful substances are the peroxisomes. They are found in the cytoplasm of the cell.
Which organelle uses molecular oxygen to convert and detoxify harmful substances such as alcohol?
peroxisomes
Is oxygen an enzyme?
No it is a pure element.
Which organelle in a cell uses molecular oxygen to convert and detoxify harmful substances such as alcohol and free radicals?
peroxisomes
What is aerobic enzymes?
An enzyme that needs oxygen to survive
In excess of oxygen the enzyme Rubisco participates in?
carbon fixation
What form of oxygen is detoxified by the enzyme catalase?
peroxide anion
Which organelle uses molecular oxygen to convert and detoxify harmful substances?
Peroxisomes are membranous sacs containing powerful oxidase enzymes that use molecular oxygen to detoxify a number of harmful or poisonous substances including alcohol and formaldehyde.(found in Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology, edition 9, Elaine Marieb p. 73)
Which substance is needed for areobic cellular respiration to occur?
enzyme
Why are bubbles produced when hydrogen peroxide reacts with catalase?
oxygen. catalase is an enzyme that breaks hydrogen peroxide down to form water and oxygen.
What is a sentence for detoxify?
The lab members tested different filtration techniques to detoxify water.
