Enzymes

Question 1

What is an enzyme

Answer 1

• A biological catalyst that speeds up chemical reaction without getting used up or changed

Question 2

Why can’t we just increase the temperature

Answer 2

• As increasing the temperature requires a lot of energy and also increases the non - useful reactions

Question 3

What happenes when you increase the temperature too much

Answer 3

• The bonds holding the enzyme together break, this causes the shape of the enzyme to change so that the anzyme becomes denatured

Question 4

• What are enzymes made of

Answer 4

• Made of large proteins which are made up of long chains of amino acids. The different ways that these amino acids are folded give us different enzymes