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Enzyme Lab Report

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The human body consists of enzymes which allow foods to be broken down and enable organisms to build chemical substances such as other proteins, carbohydrates and fats that are necessary for life. This experiment will be testing the enzymatic reactions with toothpicks. This experiment depicts the process when a substrate binds with an enzyme. However, only a specific substrate can attach to a specific enzyme. This allows the substrate to attach to the enzyme and then disconnect the enzyme overall causing the substrate to break in two. This experiment will also show how molecules that work with the enzymes, otherwise known as substrates, speed up the chemical reaction. Enzymes are known to speed up a chemical reaction because they are catalysts,

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