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Enzymes Worksheet

This document is an enzymes worksheet that contains questions about enzymes. It begins by asking students to fill in blanks about enzymes, including that they are biological catalysts made of amino acid chains. Their shape is important for their function. Students are asked to name a process enzymes catalyze in the human body and label parts of an enzyme diagram. Subsequent questions ask students to explain induced fit modeling, how shape affects reaction with the active site, and factors like temperature that influence reaction rate. The worksheet concludes with questions about an experiment investigating how temperature changes affect salivary amylase activity.

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Enzymes Worksheet

This document is an enzymes worksheet that contains questions about enzymes. It begins by asking students to fill in blanks about enzymes, including that they are biological catalysts made of amino acid chains. Their shape is important for their function. Students are asked to name a process enzymes catalyze in the human body and label parts of an enzyme diagram. Subsequent questions ask students to explain induced fit modeling, how shape affects reaction with the active site, and factors like temperature that influence reaction rate. The worksheet concludes with questions about an experiment investigating how temperature changes affect salivary amylase activity.

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Enzymes Worksheet
1. a) Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences below.
i) Enzymes are biological that speed up chemical reactions in
living organisms.
ii) Enzymes are protein molecules, which are made up of long chains of ....
iii) The sequence and type of amino acids are in each protein, so they
produce enzymes with many different shapes and functions.
iv) The shape of an enzyme is very important to its .

b) Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions involved in important processes in the


human body. Name one of these processes.

c) Label the image below with the following terms: active site, reactant, enzyme.
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d) i) What is the common name for the above model?


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ii) Label the two components of this model on the above image.

e) Using a diagram, explain the Induced Fit Model.

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2. a) Explain what would happen if a reactant molecule with a different shape to the
enzyme came into contact with the enzymes active site.

b) Explain what would happen to a reactant molecule if it came into contact with an
enzymes active site that matched its specific shape. Use the space below to draw
and explain what would happen. Use the following terms in your answer: enzymereactant complex, products, enzyme, reactant, active site.

c) There are many factors that affect the rate of enzyme-catalyzed reactions,
including temperature. Name and explain two other factors.

d) i) What would happen to an enzyme if the temperature and pH changed


significantly beyond the enzymes optimum level?

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ii) How would this affect enzyme activity?

3. A group of students decided to carry out an investigation to find out how enzyme
activity is affected by temperature changes. They put samples of salivary amylase
and starch into two test tubes. Salivary amylase is an enzyme that breaks down
starch into maltose. Its optimum temperature for activity is around 37C.
a) What do you think happened to the rate of reaction when they increased the
temperature of the first test tube to 37C?
b) What do you think happened to the enzyme activity when the students decreased
the temperature of the second test tube to OC?
c) Explain what an inhibitor is and what it does.

END OF WORKSHEET

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