An enzyme is a biological catalyst‚ meaning that it is a substance that possess the ability to increase or speed up the rate of reaction without itself being used up in the process. Enzymes provide an alternate reaction pathway by lowering the activation energy needed for a reaction to occur. For two molecules to react they must collide with each other‚ however‚ they have to collide with sufficient energy. Sufficient energy means that between them they have enough energy to overcome the energy barrier
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Temperature and Enzyme Activity Aim: To investigate the effect of temperature on enzyme activity Hypothesis: As the temperature deviates from 40°C the activity will lower Equipment: – Chemicals: – Milk – Junket tablets – Hot water – Ice – Test tubes – Stopwatch – Measuring cylinder Risk Assessment: |Hazard |Risk |Prevention | |Hot Water
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H2O2 solution Dependent Variable: Rate of reaction (cm3/second) The gas syringe (± 0.5) is used to measure the amount of oxygen produced from the catalase reaction. A rubber stopper is used to ensure that there is a closed system and no O2 escapes Controlled Variables: Substrate ( H2O2 ) Concentration and Quantity The same pipette will be used to measure
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Shalacia Gilmore Fall 2012 BIO 1107 Natural Selection Lab INTRODUCTION In the 1850s‚ two scientists by the name of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace composed the theory of evolution by natural selection. (1) Darwin characterized several claims needed for natural selection to happen‚ including heritable variation within the population‚ and the presence of more individuals than the environment can support. They also discovered that certain environments favored certain traits. These
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Enzymes play a vital role in helping our body function. They act as biological catalysts and help speed up reactions that would otherwise take long periods of time to naturally occur. Enzymes help lower the activation energy required for the reactants to reach the transitional state from which then they can form products. However‚ enzymes do not change the free energy of the reaction. Enzyme’s ability to catalyze reactions comes from the shape of the active site on the enzyme. Enzymes are hyper-specific
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Destiny Thomas Biology October 19th 2012 Period: 3rd Destiny Thomas October 19th 2012 Biology Period: 3rd Introduction In our experiment we used only the red colored life savers. They all had about the same mass. We used 9 life savers. In our experiment we had to dissolve our life savers. The concept of dissolving is to place the
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tubes 2) Boiling water bath 3) Microscope 4) Slides and cover slips 5) Pasteur pipettes MATERIALS: 1) pH test strips 2) Benedict’s reagent PROCEDURES: Collect the urine samples in a container. Make sure to not spill anywhere in the lab. Complete the tests and all results/ observation are in a proper table. (A) Observation of urine 1) The urine is sniffed and the description of the urine is described. Terminologies like slightly nutty‚ sweet/ fruity or pungent can be used
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Cofactors on Enzymatic Reactions “I pledge that no unauthorized assistance has been given or received in the completion of this work. Experiments described were performed by me and/or my lab group and this write-up is entirely my own creative work.” X________________________________________ Introduction Enzymes are protein molecules that speed up the rate of reactions by reducing the activation energy of a reaction. They act as catalysts in reactions‚ increasing the rate at which a normally
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trial produced the most oxygen of all three trials. Heat tends to increase the rate of chemical reactions‚ explained in the article Temperature Effects (Introduction to Enzymes) by Chris Jamison. “Like most chemical reactions‚ the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction increases as the temperature is raised. A ten degree rise in temperature will increase the activity of most enzymes by 50 to 100% . Variations in reaction temperature as small as 1 or 2 degrees
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factors of a chemical reaction affect the rate of reaction. This experiment focused on how temperature affects the rate of reaction for the reaction of alka-seltzer and water. The rate of a reaction is a value calculated to figure out how fast a chemical reaction occurs. There are three factors that can be changed that will affect the rate of a chemical reaction: surface area‚ concentration‚ and temperature. Temperature specifically affects the rate of a chemical reaction‚ because when the temperature
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