BIOB34H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sigmoid Function, Activation Energy, Reaction Rate
28 Sep 2016
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Recap: animal synthesize complex, low entropy molecules, aka proteins: proteins have different functions depending on their structure. Describe how enzymes bind to substrates and create products. Explain how enzymes work using the michaelis-menten equation and mass action law. Cells are essentially tiny molecule factories dna transcription and manufacture of amino acids. But dna encodes proteins, how do animals synthesize other types of molecules enzymes. Enzymes act as catalysts, helping to initiate chemical reactions that would occur really slowly otherwise. Every chemical reaction that occur in our body would occur whether or not you had enzymes but would take a long time. Employ catalysts to make sure reactions occur in a time frame. *the raw products for the reactions that are called substrates. *the molecules that are produced by the reactions are called products. E. g. enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase catalyses substrate ethanol into product acetaldehyde.
