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Experiment to study the effect of Changing enzyme concentration on the rate of catalase action.
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Background A definition of an enzyme is a biological catalysts; proteins made by living organisms, which speed up a chemical reaction. Catalysts enable substances to react more easily. They do this by helping bonds break between atoms to break and form more easily. The particles need less energy to react, so the reactions proceed more quickly. Enzymes are biological catalysts this means that they speed up reactions that would normally occur quite slowly. Enzymes are used to break down substances and are used in many metabolic processes such as digestion. Chemical reaction takes place all the time in living organisms and the enzymes that are present in the cells make the reaction occur much more quickly. Chemical reactions involve one substance changing into another. The substance that is begun with is called a substrate and the substance made by the reaction is called a product. Enzymes change their substrate to products: e.g: Enzyme Substrate The...
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