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What is the effect of temperature on the reaction between sucrose and invertase
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What is the effect of temperature on the reaction between sucrose and invertase. About enzymes Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up the rate of reaction without taking part, therefore causing the reaction to use less energy. They are all proteins so having either a primary, secondary or teritary structure ( how it is held together by globular proteins). These structures either build up (anabolism) or break down substances (catabolism). When these enzymes go past their optimum temperature which they work best at they become denatured. This is when the molecule is moving so fast due to very high temperatures that it vibrates so energetically that some of the bonds break causing the enzyme to change shape. At first the substrate just fits less well into the active site but then more bonds break causing the enzyme to loose it's shape more and therefore the more shape that is lost the longer...
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