the Nature of Enzyme Action

Question 1: What are Biomolecules?

Answer:

Biomolecules are chemical compounds or substances found in living creatures. For ex., nitrogen, Sulphur, phosphorus, carbon, hydrogen, etc. 

Question 2: What are some of the main purposes of biomolecules?

Answer:

Biomolecules have many roles to play in the human body: 

• Carbohydrates: Helps in sugar breakdown and glucose creation 
• Lipids: energy supply to cells 
• Proteins: Act as building blocks of life

Question 3: What are the important characteristics of enzymes?   

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The four main characteristics of an enzyme are

1. They possess extraordinary catalytic power, and a small quantity can easily catalyze a chemical reaction.
2. They speed up reactions but stay unchanged during the entire reaction.
3. Temperature, pH, and inhibitor can easily influence the efficiency and activity of enzymes.
4. Enzymes tend to be very specific and usually catalyze only one kind of substrate.

Question 4: What are enzymes?

Answer:

The proteins created by a living body that acts as a catalyst in metabolic activities are termed enzymes. The qualities of enzymes have the potential to affect the speed of biochemical reactions and are very important in the sustenance of life.

Question 5: What is the specificity of enzymes?

Answer:

Specificity of enzyme: Enzymes are profoundly specific in nature, i.e., a specific enzyme can catalyse a specific reaction. For example,the  Enzyme sucrase can catalyse only hydrolysis of sucrose. Enzymes start and speed up the rate of biochemical reactions. The action of enzymes depends upon the acidity of the medium (pH specific).

All the carbon-based compounds that are seen in or produced by living organisms and are necessary to a biological cycle are called biomolecules. Examples of biomolecules include proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids. Even molecules such as metabolites are considered biomolecules.