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Design an experiment to investigate the substrate concentration on the rate of activity of the enzyme catalase.
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Biology Substrate Experiment Gopal Makwana 12AT 04/05/07 Design an experiment to investigate the substrate concentration on the rate of activity of the enzyme catalase. Enzymes such as catalase are protein molecules, which are found in living cells. They are used to speed up specific reaction within the cell. They are all very specific as each enzyme just performs one particular reaction. Catalase is an enzyme found in food such as potato and liver. It is used for removing Hydrogen Peroxide from cells. Hydrogen Peroxide is the poisonous by-product of metabolism. Catalase speeds up the decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide into water and oxygen. The substrate that I shall be using is H2O2, which is Hydrogen Peroxide, and the enzyme catalase that I shell use is lamb liver. The enzyme catalase carries out the following reaction: H2O2 + H2O2 = 2 H2O + O2 It takes two molecules of hydrogen peroxide and converts them to two water molecules plus a molecule of...
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