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Biological catalysts in organisms are called enzymes.

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What is a biological catalyst that can be found in the cell of the body?

a biological catalyst that can be found in the cells of your body is called a Enzyme


What acts in your body as a catalyst?

Enzyme


What are catalyst called in the human body?

Enzymes


Is a biological catalyst that can be found in the cells of your body?

an enzyme


Why is a catalyst needed in the body?

To increase the speed of the metabolic reaction taking place in our body


Why do catalyst work without adding heat?

A catalyst changes the path of reaction mechanism and decreases the activation energy required by the reactants.


What is the biological catalyst that can not be found in the cells of your body?

Plant vacuoles contain hydrolytic enzymes and these are not found in your body.


What is the job of catalyst?

Catalysts work by lowering the "start-up" energy of a reaction.


What is the substance of a chemical reaction that accelerates?

A substance that accelerates a chemical reaction is called a catalyst. Catalysts work by lowering the activation energy needed for a reaction to occur, which speeds up the reaction without being consumed in the process.


What chemical reactions within the body sometimes require special proteins called to catalyze the reaction?

The (general) name of proteins that makes chemical reactions inside the body work is 'enzyme'. Enzymes have a 'catalyst' function. There is one for each specific biological reaction.


What term describes a substance rhat lowers the amount of energy needed to start a chemical reaction?

This substance is called a catalyst.


Does the body have to continuously produce enzymes?

The definition of a catalyst is that it is something that speeds up a reaction without being used up itself. Therefore every reaction that takes place in the body that requires a catalyst/enzyme will do so, but the catalyst will remain intact at the end. Therefore the body does not have to keep making enzymes all the time. It only needs to replace the ones that are oxidized or otherwise degraded. (A catalyst can also slow down a reaction.)