The enzyme will be re-used in another reaction.
The enzyme still remains and can be used again for another reaction.
The reaction will speed up.
Increasing the amount of enzyme used can increase the rate of the reaction, leading to a higher production of the product, up to a certain point. However, at a certain enzyme concentration, the reaction may reach saturation, and increasing the enzyme further may not significantly change the product yield.
If an enzyme produces too much of one substance in the organism, that substance may act as an inhibitor for the enzyme at the beginning of the pathway that produces it, causing production of the substance to slow down or stop when there is sufficient amount.
The enzyme will be re-used in another reaction.
After the enzyme has converted the substrate to the product, it is now free to accept more substrate. The enzyme does not get changed or altered in a reaction.
The enzyme still remains and can be used again for another reaction.
The reaction will speed up.
Increasing the amount of enzyme used can increase the rate of the reaction, leading to a higher production of the product, up to a certain point. However, at a certain enzyme concentration, the reaction may reach saturation, and increasing the enzyme further may not significantly change the product yield.
Adding an enzyme will likely speed up the breakdown of starch into glucose. Enzymes are biological catalysts that can increase the rate of chemical reactions, often significantly. This would result in a faster conversion of starch into glucose compared to the reaction without the enzyme.
If an enzyme produces too much of one substance in the organism, that substance may act as an inhibitor for the enzyme at the beginning of the pathway that produces it, causing production of the substance to slow down or stop when there is sufficient amount.
The answer lies with proteins. A specific kind of protein called an enzyme lowers the activation energy of chemical reactions. Reactions that would normally take years happen in seconds. Figure 7.1 shows how this effect alters chemical equilibrium. Consider a set of chemicals that have two paths to interact as shown in figure 7.1. One reaction is a side reaction that is undesirable. The other is desirable. The enzyme lowers the activation energy for the desirable reaction making it happen quickly. The undesirable reaction does not have a chance. Also notice that the entropy of the universe is maximized by the undesirable reaction. Thus, from thermodynamic considerations, one might think that the undesirable reaction is always dominant, but because the laws of thermodynamics have no way to deal with time, this observation is seldom true. The enzyme is not violating the second law by forcing the reaction in the preferred direction. Its reaction is also spontaneous in that it also increases the entropy of the universe. By making the desired reaction happen faster, the enzyme does not give the undesirable reaction time to happen.
An enzyme influences a biological reaction by speeding up the reaction without being consumed in the process. Enzymes lower the activation energy needed for a reaction to occur, making it easier and faster for the reaction to take place. This allows biological processes to happen more efficiently in living organisms.
It is an enzyme that allows for a reaction to accur sooner then normal. The catalysis makes the activation energy needed by the reaction less then what would have been normally. Allowing for a reaction to happen faster.
catalyst. An enzyme speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction by lowering the activation energy required for the reaction to occur. This allows the reaction to happen more quickly and efficiently within biological systems.
Enzymes speed up biological reactions by lowering the activation energy needed for the reaction to occur. This allows the reaction to happen more quickly and efficiently.