Yes, enzymes are not consumed in a chemical reaction. They act as catalysts, speeding up the reaction without being altered or used up in the process. This allows enzymes to be used repeatedly.
No, a substrate is the molecule that the enzyme acts upon to catalyze a reaction. Enzymes are proteins that function as biological catalysts, helping to speed up chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy.
Enzymes speed up the chemical reactions because when it forms a complex with its substrates, it reduces the activation energy that the reaction needs to proceed. Remember that the reaction itself is not altered, only the rate of reaction, and that the enzyme is not used or altered in the reactions.
Enzyme or Catalysts
After an enzyme performs its function, it can be reused to catalyze the same reaction repeatedly. Enzymes are not consumed or altered during the reaction, so they can continue to work until they are degraded or denatured.
to speed up a chemical reaction
Enzyme or catalyst
This would be an enzyme.
The reaction will speed up.
by lowering the activation energy
Adding an enzyme will likely speed up the breakdown of starch into glucose. Enzymes are biological catalysts that can increase the rate of chemical reactions, often significantly. This would result in a faster conversion of starch into glucose compared to the reaction without the enzyme.
A specific enzyme is an enzyme that only changes the speed of ONE reaction. (It only acts on one particular substance that happens to be compatible with that enzyme) i.e. if enzyme A is specific to reaction A, it will change the speed of reaction A. However it will have no effect on any other reaction like reaction B or C.
Enzymes speed up a reaction by lowering the activation energy. This is the amount of energy required to start the reaction. By lowering the activation energy, the reaction can proceed much more quickly.
Enzymes are proteins that speed up chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy needed for the reaction to occur.
An enzyme works to speed up chemical reactions in a living organism.
3 factors that affect the speed of an enzyme catalysed reaction are: .Temperature .Enzyme Concentartion .Substrate concentration
The enzyme reduces the activation energy of the reaction, therefore chemical reaction speeds are increased.