Action of enzymes as catalysts in biochemical processes * Enzymes acts as catalyst and increase the rate of all the chemical reactions. * Enzymes are also described by two properties like all other catalysts. It composed of two main functions. * The first function is that‚ they increase the rate of chemical reactions by without consumed themselves or undergo any change or alteration in the reaction. . ( Zemitec et‚al 2008). * The second function is‚ they increase reaction rates
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In this enzyme lab‚ (insert creative name)‚ the enzyme catalase was observed under varying conditions in order to interpret what prohibits and inhibits the functioning of certain enzymes in chemical reactions. Enzymes aid in chemical reactions by speeding up the time it takes for the reaction to occur‚ without getting “used up” throughout the process. Catalase‚ the specific enzyme used in this lab‚ is a protein abundant in the liver and red blood cells. It enhances the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide
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world’s fuel problems. Bioengineers have already developed algae that produce ethanol‚ oil and even diesel -- and the only things the organisms need are sunlight‚ CO2 and seawater. For reasons of data protection and privacy‚ your IP address will only be stored if you are a registered user of Facebook and you are currently logged in to the service. For more detailed information‚ please click on the "i" symbol. Biochemist Dan Robertson’s living gas stations have the dark-green shimmer of oak leaves
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Enzymes and Their Importance in Plants and Animals Enzymes are large proteins that are responsible for catalysing thousands of metabolic processes that sustain life. Enzymes work similarly to those catalysts used in industry by lowering activation energy and therefore dramatically speeding up the rate of a reaction‚ however‚ these biological catalysts are highly selective to their substrate. Almost every chemical reaction that occurs in a cell requires enzymes in order to occur at rates required
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Lab 6: Enzymes . header Purpose: The purpose of this lab is to test for enzyme activity‚ look at enzyme specificity‚ and how temperature affects enzyme activity. Time need to perform this lab: approximately 3 hours Preparation FIRST: Read the lab in its entirety TWICE before you begin. You will perform the experiment‚ write your lab report and include the answers to the additional 4 questions within the text for full credit on this experiment. Materials: •3% hydrogen peroxide •a household
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friends. When you picture a zoo or circus‚ you imagine a sunny day filled with beautiful exotic animals and greasy‚ delicious food‚ but what are those animals really feeling and thinking behind their facade of fancy performances? Zoos and circuses are beneficial to humans because they create a money making industry and provide entertainment and education‚ but in what way do the animals benefit? Animals are taken from their natural environment and held captive for us to use as both a money maker and
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Animals also have rights. As a human we have liberty‚ which is freedom‚ choice etc. And also animals has the right to live‚ and the right to choose. But is it right to take the freedom or the life of animals just because we want to research? NO. It’s not right to kill and make them suffer for us. Animals have emotions. They have thoughts‚ ideas‚ feelings. They also suffer. If we just kill and make them suffer‚ we are taking the freedom and the life of other animals. To protect the animal’s liberty
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a bad influence on the world: Anaesthetising: The extraction of Morphine‚ one of the opiate alkaloids found naturally in opium‚ was revolutionary in the medical world. Even though local anaesthesia is available to us by a completely different plant‚ the Coca‚ general anaesthesia became possible with the Opium poppy. It allowed patients to be knocked out completely for operations they were having‚ which gave doctors the opportunity to make great advances in the surgical field. Wars: In the
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many animals are used each year for animal testing? The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection believes there to be about 10 to 11 million experimented on in the United Kingdom‚ and the United States Department of Agriculture has tested upon 1‚137‚718 animals‚ not including mice or rats‚ in 2002 (Bidnall n. pag.). These statistics are only from two countries throughout this entire planet‚ which entirely surpasses prudency. Animals are not lesser than humans because they do not have the
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Enzymes An enzyme is a protein used to speed up the rate of a chemical reaction. Because they regulate the rate of chemical reactions‚ they are also called catalysts. There are many‚ many different types of enzymes‚ because for each chemical reaction that occurs‚ an enzyme specific to that reaction must be made. To act on a substrate‚ an enzyme must contain an active site. The active site is the area on the enzyme that allows the substrate and enzyme to fit together. The amino acids that are present
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