5 Enzymes

Question 1

Enzyme

Answer 1

Proteins that act as biological catalysts they increase the rate of metabolic reactions/chemical reactions and remain unchanged afterwards

Question 2

why are enzymes important in living organisms?

Answer 2

they keep the reaction rate needed to sustain life

Question 3

shape of substrate and active site

Answer 3

are complementary to one another

Question 4

enzyme substrate complex

Answer 4

a temporary molecule formed when the substrate binds to the enzyme

Question 5

Why does changes in pH effect enzyme activity?

Answer 5

it will affect the chargeds on the amino acid molecules, they will no longer be attracted to one another, causing the shape of the enzmye (and active site) to change
extreme pHs also denatures enzyme

Question 6

How does changing the temperature affect enzyme activity

Answer 6

as the temp increases so does the kinetic energy of the molecules causing more collisions to occur and with sufficient energy to have effective collisions. Which increases the enzyme activity.
However at too high of temps the enzymes can become denatured.