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Trypsin Investigation  

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I'm going to investigate the enzyme which is trypsin. The protein I'm using is glue which sticks the black silver salts to the x-ray film. If you get a splinter and cut a little split at one of the ends and slide the x-ray film in. Get a beaker and fill it half away with cold water also get a test tube and pour a little dash of trypsin in. Place the test tube into the beaker and put the splinter into the test tube. Every so often take the splinter out of the test tube and wait until you get black on your fingers. If you get black on your fingers that shows trypsin works. The x-ray film should go clear because the glue was digested by the trypsin. Enzyme is one of the many specialized organic substances, composed of polymers of amino acids, that act as catalysts to...

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