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This is the enzyme that breaks down Lactose.
What is Lactase?
Enzymes function during chemical reactions.
What is they speed them up?
When you denature an enzyme you change it's ____________.
What is shape?
This is the term used when the enzyme is actively operating on the substrate causing the reaction.
What is an enzyme-substrate complex?
If something is acidic it has pH below _____
What is 7
This enzyme breaks up Proteins
What is Protease?
What happens to an enzyme when the temperature increases?
What is it denatures?
What extreme conditions can denature an enzyme?
What are temperature and pH?
This is what the Enzyme acts upon.
What is a substrate?
Enzymes lose their shape if the temperature is....
What is too high?
This enzyme breaks down sucrose
What is sucrase?
The most common number for human enzymes to successfully work is 7.
What is pH?
If you denature an enzyme than it won't be able to do it's job which is to speed up reactions, aka___ __________________.
What is catalyst?
Where the specific substrate fits in the enzyme.
What is an active site?
The pH for a base
What is higher than 7
This enzyme breaks down complex carbohydrates
What is Amylase?
Enzymes are made up of proteins which are made up of
What is amino acids?
Enzymes are substrate specific and this means?
What is Enzymes only react with specific substrates that fit into the active site (Lock and key)
The “new” substance created during reaction.
What is a product?
The pH for an acid.
What is less than 7 to zero?
Enzymes are made up of these elements
What is Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen?
The process of how enzymes lower the activation energy
What is weakening the bonds
Another name for the substrate.
What is reactant.
After the reaction, the enzyme can be_________.
What is used again?
Potatoes are mostly made up of this organic molecule....
What is carbohydrates/starch?