Enzymes: Functions, and Nomenclature

Enzymes are classified according to the chemical ______ they catalyse.

The optimum ______ is the point when the rate of reaction is highest and the enzyme is most active.

Enzymes are proteins that function as biological ______.

Enzymes work by lowering the ______ energy of a reaction.

The 'lock-and-key' hypothesis explains enzyme ______.

When all the active sites of enzyme molecules are saturated the rate of reaction will remain ______.

The name of an enzyme shows the substance on which the enzyme acts on ends in '______'.

An increase in substrate concentration means an increase in the number of ______ molecules available.

At low temperature, the enzymes are ______.

Biological washing powders contain protease and ______ to remove protein stains and fat/grease from clothes.

Polypeptide chains of enzyme molecules ______ as ionic forces of attraction increase too much .

Increasing the temperature increases the rate of enzyme reactions until the ______ temperature is reached.

When the active site loses its specific three-dimensional ______ the enzyme reaction will be impacted.

A competitive inhibitor is structurally similar to the ______ of the enzyme that it inhibits.

When an enzyme is ______, there is loss or change in the active site.

The substrate binds to the enzyme, forming an enzyme ______ complex.

A ______ is a molecule that inhabits the action of specific enzymes.

In the presence of a non-competitive inhibitor, increasing the substrate concentration ______ prevent the inhibitor to the same enzyme.

When pH changes drastically, polypeptide chains of enzyme molecules unfold as ionic forces of attraction holding the chains together are ______.

Enzymes catalyse or speed up the rate of chemical ______ and remain chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction.