Enzyme Reaction Lab

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The purpose of the experiment conducted is to understand the role of enzymes in maintaining life and to be able to identify and explain various factors that affect enzyme functions. Make sure to be wearing lab appropriate clothing, a lab coat, and safety goggles at all times since this experiment involves you handling dangerous chemicals like hydroxylamine. For this experiment one of the main materials needed is a spectrophotometer. The use of the spectrophotometer is very important in this experiment. You will test three concentrations of enzyme (0.5 ml, 1.0 ml, and 2.0 ml of turnip extract) and three concentrations of substrate (0.1 ml, 0.2 ml, and 0.4 ml hydrogen peroxide). You always need to make sure you have a control, the control in this experiment is the turnip extract and the color reagent guaiacol. Increasing the temperature increases the rate of an enzyme reaction, decreasing the temperature decreases the rate of an enzyme reaction. Denaturation is a process in which proteins or nucleic acids lose the quaternary structure, tertiary structure and secondary structure. Hydroxylamine is a colorless inorganic compound and an odorless white crystalline solid. …show more content…

We need enzymes in order to survive, without enzymes some reactions would be too slow to keep you alive. Enzymes help cells communicate with each other to keep things under control in the cell. The purpose of this experiment is to understand the role of enzymes in maintaining life and to be able to identify and explain various factors that affect enzyme functions for example the

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