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Highest Enzyme Activity
The pH with the highest enzyme activity was PH9.This was predicted, because each respective enzyme performs and reacts at a certain scale due to the chemical reaction it is involve with, this is shown in figure 5. Also, since enzymes are proteins they are sensitive to change in ph. In other words, the fact that each enzyme has its own optimum range for PH where it will be most active, by this the reason the binding of the enzyme to substrate, the ionization of the substrate and the catalytic activity of the enzyme are all possible reason why PH of 9 has the highest enzyme activity> in addition, this is due to the initial rates and the concentration at which the PH function its best. The PH with the lowest enzyme activity was PH of 3; this

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