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Find out how much oxygen is given off, changing the concentration of catalase in potato discs, during the reaction with hydrogen peroxide.
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SAIRA JAVAD 27/01/2004 Catalase Aim Our aim is to find out how much how much oxygen is given off, changing the concentration of catalase in potato discs, during the reaction with hydrogen peroxide. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Enzymes are biological catalysts that change the rate of a chemical reaction without being changed itself. They are found in both plants and animals as they are used for chemical breakdown, which involves the use of enzymes to break down the chemical bonds in food, which forms molecular sizes. Each enzyme is specific as it has a certain job to do, for example, the enzyme pepsin is a protease, and it breaks proteins down to polypeptides. Catalase is an enzyme found in all living plant and animal cells. Catalase can be found in foods such as liver and potato and Catalase activity is reported in nearly all animal cells and organs and in aerobic micro-organisms. Specifically in cells it is located...
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