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Investigate the effect of temperature on the enzyme Catalase.
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PLANNING AIM: The aim of my experiment is to investigate the effect of temperature on the enzyme Catalase. PREDICTIONS: I Predict using my scientific knowledge that as I raise the temperature of the hydrogen peroxide, the reaction of the enzyme will get greater until it gets to 40oC where it will start to decrease. I predict this because enzymes are designed to react best at the body temperatures of the animals to which they belong. For humans this is 37oC. Catalysts are used to speed up biochemical reactions in the body. Enzymes are biological catalysts made of proteins. They have an optimum temperature and pH at which they work fastest. But they can be denatured by high temperature. The enzyme is unchanged by the reaction, and each enzyme is specific to one reaction. The "collision theory" has been developed to explain this temperature affect. The collision theory basically states for a bimolecular reaction to...
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