BIOLOGY 4: Enzymes

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What are enzymes?
Proteins that speed up chemical reactions
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Which proteins speed up chemical reactions?
Enzymes
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What is a substrate?
A molecule that is changed in a reaction
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What does every enzyme molecule have?
An active site
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What is an active site?
The part of an enzyme that the substrate joins on to
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What does an enzyme have to be to fit into the active site?
A specific shape
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What is the model that demonstrates a substrate fitting into the active site of an enzyme?
Lock and key model
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What do enzymes need to work at their optimum?
A specific constant temperature
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Can you define 'optimum'?
When an enzyme is most active
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How does increasing the temperature first affect the rate of an enzyme?
It increases
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What happens if the temperature increases too much?
The bonds holding the enzyme break and it becomes denatured
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Why does an enzyme become denatured?
When the shape of the active site changes to the substrate can no longer fit
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What else, along with temperature can denature an enzyme?
pH
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