Logged out
Access All our Essays in an Instant
Swap your work for FREE access, or pay £4.99 for instant access
Effect of temperature of the action of the Enzyme Catalase.
Member rating: No Rating | Words: | Submitted: Wed Sep 24 2003
Page Preview
On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:
AIM Effect of temperature of the action of the Enzyme Catalase. PLANNING Background Knowledge An enzyme is a biological catalyst, it alter the rate of reaction without being changed itself. Enzymes are proteins; they have a very precise three-dimensional shape, which forms a one specific active site on the enzyme. Each enzyme can only convert one kind of substrate molecule in to one kind of product molecule. These are specific. What affects Enzymes? ˇ Temperature- Enzymes stop working if the temperature rises above 40ēC. Increasing the temperature alters the 3D shape and so the enzyme can no longer fit the substrate. ˇ pH- They work best in neutral conditions neither acidic nor alkaline. What affect does catalase have? Catalase is a very fast reacting enzyme, it is found in many living cells, it breaks down hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen. In fact one molecule of it can deal with six million molecules of hydrogen peroxide in 1 minute....
Get instant access
- Instant, unlimited access to our documents in full
- Swap your work for free access, or pay £4.99
- To see the full version of this document and 145,982 others
Receive email updates for this category
- Simply tell us your email address and receive a weekly Study Help Email for FREE
- Receive 3 FREE essay views with each email
- Get all the latest essays from Coursework.Info & discussion from TheStudentRoom.co.uk
