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Determine the optimum temperature at which the enzyme amylase digests starch into glucose residues through making predictions and doing practical experiments.
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Biology Experiment-Investigation into Enzyme Amylase Aim The aim of my experiment is to determine the optimum temperature at which the enzyme amylase digests starch into glucose residues through making predictions and doing practical experiments. Introduction After great study into catalysts, I found that enzymes are nothing more than protein molecules that reduce activation energy and form products extremely quickly without having their own molecular structure transformed or broken down. I have also found that enzymes are extremely sensitive in the sense that they have a particular shape in which a substrate fits in to, like a key that fits into a lock. This brings reason into why Amylase is only an enzyme that breaks starch into glucose residues and no other substance. Scientific theories are known that the most common enzymes works best at around 40.c. This is there optimum temperature they react. If this temperature begins to rise, the reactions slow down; this will...
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