Vocabulary
A biological catalyst found in living organisms that speeds up a chemical reaction.
enzyme
True or false. All proteins are enzymes
False - (but all enzymes are protein)
Where would you find the enzyme catalyse that speed up reaction?
cells
The substances that an enzyme acts on
substrate
What does it mean to calalyze a reaction?
To speed up the reaction
What happen when an enzyme is denatured?
Enzyme will lose it shape.
The area of the enzyme where the substrate attaches.
active site
To change the enzyme structure so it no longer functions
Denaturing
What can high temperature do to the enzyme?
High temperature may denature the enzyme
What is the lock and key theory?
substrate must exactly fit into the enzyme to be catalysed