B3 Digestive System

Question 1

What environment does protease work best in?

Answer 1

The enzyme in your stomach works best in acidic conditions.

Question 2

What conditions does proteases work best in?

Answer 2

The proteases in your pancreas need alkaline conditions to work at their best.

Question 3

How does your body enable protease to have acidic conditions?

Answer 3

Your stomach produces a relatively concentrated solution of hydrochloric acid from your glands.

Question 4

How does your body enable proteases to have alkaline conditions?

Answer 4

So this can happen , your liver makes a green-yellow alkaline liquid called bile. Bile is stored in your gall bladder until it is needed.

Question 5

What is the optimum temperature?

Answer 5

The highest temperature point it reaches.

Question 6

Why does pH affect the way am enzyme works?

Answer 6

.Changes in pH alter the shape of an enzymes active site
.Each enzyme works best at specific Ph value
.The optimum pH for an enzyme depends on where it normally works

Question 7

Explain why enzyme activity decreases as the temperature stops increasing?

Answer 7

The enzyme becomes denatured and stops working as thy can no longer act as catalysts as the active site has changed shape as …
. The temperature increases kinetic energy does
.then vibrations does so then the bond breaks it loses shape.