ENZYMES

Chemicals that pep up your cellular reactions

Vocabulary you must know enzyme, protein, amino acid, active site, substrate, reactants, products, denaturation, inactive, metabolism, catalyst, inhibitor, optimum, pH, acid, base, neutral, enzyme substrate complex. 

Info Book chapter 6.3

Activity   [|Enzyme properties] review [|Enzymes and pH] [|Enzymes, pH and digestion] [|Interactive tutorial Glencoe]

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[|Enzyme Simulation] [|Create a graph]

Lab

Questions you must be able to answer. Date 1. What is an enzyme? 2. What are the characteristics of all enzymes? 3. How does temperature change the behavior of an enzyme? 4. How do acids and bases change the behavior of an enzyme? 5. Why can a denatured enzyme never work again?

Date 1. Are enzymes reusable? 2. Is an enzyme specific to a substrate? 3. What are the functions of some pepsin in your body? 4. How can an substrate and enzyme be likened to a lock and key? 5. How does an enzyme know when it has found its substrate?