The Behavior of Proteins: Enzymes Enzymes are Effective Biological Catalyst Catalysis- speeds up metabolism to allow production of products. Enzymes- Highly specific and most efficient catalyst that speeds up metabolism or rate of reaction in organisms by factor up to 10^20 (globular proteins) Nonenzymatic catalyst- enhance by 10^2 -10^4 Ribozymes- acts for catalytic activity in RNA’s Kinetics versus Thermodynamics Standard free energy change- difference between the energies of the reactants
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Enzyme Lab Experiments Problem: How can we demonstrate how enzymes work? What happens if we alter the environment of an enzyme? Materials: G;lucose Test Strips Test Tubes Pipettes Raw Hamburg Lettuce Potato Raw Liver Chalk Beakers Dairy Lactose Tablet Water Sugar Solo Cups Hot Plate Knife Gloves Skim Milk Glow Sticks Peroxide Hypothesis: 1. If we change the environment via temperature the glow stick will Its intensity will change 2. If hydrogen peroxide is added to a certain food liver
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Enzymes Ashley Njeru Mrs. Booth Tuesday‚ March 19th 2013 SBI 4U INTRODUCTION: The cellular activity of all organisms is controlled through the use of enzymes. An enzyme is a special type of biological molecule‚ usually a protein‚ which speeds up a chemical reaction; most are soluble in water or a dilute salt solution. There are about 4000 different enzymes in a typical living cell. If even one of these enzymes is missing or
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Lab Report: Scientific Method Your Name: Alyssa Melincoff Purpose of this Lab What is the goal of this lab? What question is it trying to answer‚ or what problem is it trying to explain? To find out how table salt affects the boiling temperature of water. Hypothesis After reading the lab instructions - but before starting the lab - record your best “educated guess” about what will happen in the experiment. What hypothesis can you generate about the effect of adding salt to water? Adding
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IB SL Biology Lab Molecular Biology: Transformation and Electrophoresis Christina Qi 2/16/07 Aim: How can a plasmid be engineered to include a foreign piece of DNA and how does gel electrophoresis separate DNA molecules present in a mixture? Hypothesis: If the pGLO plasmid is inserted into competent Escherichia coli cells‚ then the transformed bacteria will be resistant to ampicillin and will glow green under UV light. If samples of DNA are cut using certain restriction
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Title: Aim: to observe and find out how much starch grains are distributed within a transverse section of a banana Apparatus: banana‚ iodine solution‚ ruler‚ white tile‚ stopwatch‚ microscope slide‚ coverslip‚ filter paper‚ Light microscope Method: 1) A piece of banana was place on a tile and a section was cut across the piece of banana about 5mm thick. 2) The surface of the banana was covered with iodine solution and left for about one minute. 3) The distribution
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Enzymes INTRODUCTION Enzymes are protein cells and they are found in the gut. They help to break down the food you eat. Enzymes are produced by living cells and they speed up reactions because they are biological catalysts. If we did not have enzymes‚ the reactions in our cells would be too slow to keep us alive. This means that they are extremely important for our survival. The properties of enzymes are: ⋆ They can be used many times‚ because they can speed up reactions without
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Environmental Parameters of Enzyme Activity Alex Rocha Texas State University Abstract If you’ve ever left a cut up apple out for long‚ you’ll notice that after a while‚ it will turn brown. The reason for this is an enzyme named catechol oxidase‚ a ubiquitous plant enzymes containing a dinuclear copper center (Klabunde‚ Eicken‚ Sacchettini‚ & Krebs‚ 1998). In this experiment‚ we used two different chelators‚ ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid and phenylthiourea to test which would stop
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Name: Angel Simon Pre–Lab Question Ocular lens 1. Label the following microscope using the components described within the Introduction. Experiment 1: Virtual Magnification Exercise Post-Lab Questions 1. At what magnification do you first notice the ragweed pollen? Answer: 1000 2. Which is bigger‚ a rhinovirus or E. Coli? Answer: E. Coli 3. Based on the magnification‚ how many of the E. Coli can fit into the same space as the
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LAB 4 Read over the parts of the microscope and answer the following questions: 1. What do you call the lens you look through on the microscope? Ocular 2. What is the difference between the ocular lens and the objective lens? Ocular lens is the lens you look through and objective lens is the lens that is close to the stage. 3. Where do you place the slide on the microscope? the stage under the stage clips 4. Which adjustment‚ course or fine‚ do you use when you are observing the
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