Tuesday, September 9, 2008

5.5 Summary


-An activation energy is usually galled a start-up engergy which activates the reactants and triggers a chemical reaction.

-The hotter the molecule is then the more likly it will collide with enought energy to the weaken bonds which the cooler molecules collide with the less engery molecules.
-A type of cellular reaction is depended on the assistance of the catalysts, compound that speeds up the chemical reactions.
-Enzymes are the main catalysts of a chemical reaction which the organism are specialized proteins.
-A substrate is a specific reactant acted upon by an enzyme which is called the enzym's substrate.
- The active site is a substrate fits into a particular region of the enzyme.

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