Enzymes

Enzymes are biological catalysts. A catalysts is a chemical agent that changes the rate of a reaction without being consumed by the reaction. They speed up chemical reactions that take place in living organisms by lowering energy barriers. They are made of polymers of amino acids. The structure of enzymes are very important to how they fucntion and what their fuction is. Enzyme structures are very important to their functions. When the enzyme binds to the substrate, the catalytic action of the enzyme converts the substrate to the product of the reaction.

Enzymes are proteins, which are polymers of amino acids. restricted region of the enzyme molecule, called the active site, actually binds to the substrate. They are very specific to their jobs. The specificity of enzymes result from the shape of the active site and the shape of the the substrate. The shape of the active site is not exactly like the substrate. As the substrate enters the active site i...