Enzyme Lab Report

Enzymes are biological highly selective catalyst, greatly accelerating both the rate and specificity of metabolic chemical reactions, from the digestion of food to the synthesis of DNA. Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions involving the substrate. Substrate is a molecule that attach to the active site of the enzyme protein which an enzyme acts. Active site is a small port in an enzyme that helps enzyme to bind with substrates and undergo a chemical reaction. During this binding of substrates with active site it creates enzyme substrate complex, which is the complex where the reaction occurs. A small amount of enzyme can alter enormous amount of substrate. But there are lots of factors that could affect the function of enzymes, which are pH, temperature, activators, and cofactors. Also there are inhibitors that inhibits enzymes from doing its job. These inhibitors can be categorized as competitive inhibitor and non-competitive inhibitor. Competitive inhibitor are enzymes that inhibits the molecule from binding to the active site of the enzyme, these inhibitors …show more content…
As you can see according to the figure 4.7, tube 4 that was in a temperature of 4°C took the longest time for the starch to disappear (10 mins 30 seconds). This means that at the temperature of 4°C amylase activity are the slowest, it takes longer for the starch to get digested. On the other hand when amylase was in the temperature of 80°C in tube one, starch disappeared much quicker (1min). This means that amylase acts quicker in a higher temperature. The body temperature for human is between 36°C to 37°C, which means it utilizes digestion of starch rate in a way that's not too fast or too slow. In a molecular perspective the higher the temperature the greater the digestion rate of starch. This experiment well supports the