level: Topic 2 1: Introduction to enzymes
Questions and Answers List
level questions: Topic 2 1: Introduction to enzymes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an enzyme? | Biological catalysts |
| What are catalysts? | They speed up reactions without being used up themselves |
| Living things have something called metabolic rate. What is a metabolic rate? | Sum of all the chemical reactions that happen in their body. |
| What are enzymes made up of? | Protein |
| What are proteins? | They are substances made up of a smaller units called amino acid |
| About how many amino acid are found in our human body that we make our protein from? | 20 |
| What is the structure of a chain of amino acid? | They are strung together like beads on a shoelace in a certain sequence or order, which is determined by your DNA. |
| What is a substrate | a |