Temperature Affecting Enzyme Activity
Introduction
The basic properties of life revolve around chemical reactions. Without the presence of enzymes some of life’s processes would not come so easily. Enzymes are basically proteins, which have specific shapes for different substrates. Enzymes change the rate in chemical reactions. It does this without having to change its own shape, which makes enzymes different from other proteins. A common enzyme that we have is catalase, which breaks down hydrogen peroxide into the products water and oxygen.
To observe this catalase activity I used small amounts of liver samples slightly smaller than the size of a pea to see the reaction when hydrogen peroxide is added to it. In this experiment I exposed the liver samples in three different temperature environments: 3°c, 22°c, and 75°c. I wanted to measure how much water and oxygen is produced in each environment by measuring the visible bubbles in each test tube. I predicted that water......
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