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Experiment to find out how temperature affects enzyme reactions I am planning to perform an experiment to find out how and if temperature affects the rate of which enzyme reacts. The enzyme I will be using will be amylase. Amylase is an enzyme that breaks down starch so we will test at what temperature the amylase will break down the starch at the quickest time, therefore looking for the enzymes' optimum temperature, at a temperature lower than the unknown optimum the amylase will work slower meaning more time taken to break down slower, how ever if heated too much, unlike in other reaction were heat usually speeds up reactions, but in an enzyme it will become less effective once the optimum temperature is passed until it stops working at which we can say the enzyme has become denatured. Prediction Based on my knowledge I believe that the enzymes will breakdown the starch quicker...

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