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Enzymes act as catalysts.They catalyze within cells. Our bodies would not work without these enzymes.

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Q: What is another name for biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions in organisms?
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Why are catalysts essential to biochemical reactions that occur in living organism What do you call these special biological catalysts?

Without catalysts many chemical reactions cannot occur; biological catalysts are called enzymes.


What group of biological molecules can speed up chemical reactions by lowering a reactions activation energy?

Biological catalysts are called 'enzymes'.


What chemical reactions are often aided by protein catalysts known as enzymes?

These are the chemical reactions occuring in living organisms.


What speeds up chemical reactions by lowing activation energy?

catalysts or enzymes which speed up chemical reactions in organisms


What is the importance of enzymes to biological systems?

Enzymes decrease the amount of activation energy required for chemical reactions to occur.


What are proteins that speed up chemical reactions in organisms called?

We call these enzymes but there are ones in chemical reactions which do the same but are called catalysts.


What does biological catalyst mean?

Enzymes are biological catalysts. This means they speed up a chemical reaction, but are not broken down or changed by it. They lower the amount of energy required for a chemical reaction to tack place.


What are molecules called that control all chemical reactions in the body?

I don't know about controlling ALL chemical reactions in the body, but biological catalysts are known as enzymes.


What is meant by the statement enzymes are biological catalysts?

enzyme speed up the chemical reactions in living cells


What are the substances that increase the rate of a chemical reaction called?

A catalyst can speed up a chemical reaction. Another possible answer in the Biological sense is that Enzymes speed up chemical reactions, but these enzymes are catalysts of the chemical reactions.Different catalysts catalyse different reactions. For example iron is used as a catalyst in the Haber process (manufacture of ammonia).


How many times a enzyme is renewable?

Infinitely. Enzymes are biological catalysts and a catalyst is never used up in chemical reactions.


Why do you need enzymes?

Enzymes are biological catalysts, mainly proteins, generated by your body to speed up chemical reactions in the body