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How does the amount of the enzyme catalayse affect the speed of a chemical reaction
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Does the amount of an enzyme affect the speed of reaction and volume of product produced? Oliver Flint Does the amount of an enzyme affect the speed of reaction and volume of product produced? What is an enzyme? An enzyme is a protein strand specifically designed to break down a chemical, in this case called a substrate. Each enzyme will only break down one substrate. An enzyme breaks down a substrate, simply by its design. A basic way of representing this is a diagram like this It shows how a enzyme breaks down a substrate, but in a very basic way, real enzyme diagrams are far more complicated and look like a intermingled mesh of ribbons. The Diagram shows the breaking down of a substrate in the four stages of the reaction. The first stage of reaction is the substrate being drawn to the active site of the enzyme. ( the active site of...
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