1. Enzymes

2. TSWBAT determine enzyme activity by testing the enzyme is a series of abiotic factors -determine the substrate in which the enzyme breaks down
What is the enzyme you are using in this lab?
What is the substrate in this lab? What type of macromolecule is it?
What does the enzyme break the substrate down into?

3. What were the results for each part?
TSWBAT determine enzyme activity by testing the enzyme is a series of abiotic factors -determine the substrate in which the enzyme breaks down
Identify the independent and dependent variables in each part of the experiment
What were the results for each part?

4. Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts
Catalyst – any substrate that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being changed or used up in the reaction.
Carry out the same function over and over again
Without enzymes chemical reactions would happen too slowly to keep a cell alive!

5. Function
Digestion, synthesis, respiration, and photosynthesis (autotrophs)
3-Dimensional shape
Shape influences what they work on and how they work
Amino acid chains determine the shape

6. Substrate The molecule a particular enzyme works on
Sucrase works on sucrose
Amylase works on starch
Most enzymes end in “ase”

7. Importance of shape
The 3-d shape influences their functions and interactions with molecules
Anything that alters the shape of an enzyme or alters the amino acid bonds changes the enzyme’s ability to function.

8. Reaction rates
All enzymes have an optimal temperature and pH (that is where they work best)
Drastic changes can denature the enzyme (change the shape of the protein) –it will no longer
THIS IS CALLED DENATURED!!

9. Enzyme graph

10. Signals
Other chemicals in your body turn your enzymes on or off – binding signals
Not all cells have the same enzymes
Effects of heat, acidity, and concentration
Competitive Inhibitors and non-competitive inhibitor

11. Another type of signal