BIOMAN: Enzymatic Game
Answer the Questions in your Lab Notebook – page 37
Tape this sheet over your answers on page 37
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atichtml5page.html
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Choose “Start a New Game”
From the Main Menu Choose “What Are Enzymes?”
What are Enzymes?
1. What is an enzyme? What do they do?
2. What is a hydrolysis reaction?
3. What is a dehydration reaction?
PLAY THE GAME!
GO BACK TO THE MAIN MENU
Specificity
4. What makes an enzyme specific?
5. How do the enzyme and substrate “fit” together?
PLAY THE GAME!
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Experiments
6. What three factors impact enzyme function?
Enzymes and Temperature
7. What do you observe at low temperature, medium temperature
and high temperature?
8. What is the best temperature for the enzyme?
9. Sketch the graph of enzyme function and temperature.
PICK NEXT CONCEPT
TAKE THE MINI QUIZ
Enzymes and pH
10. What numbers on the pH scale are acidic?
11. What numbers on the pH scale are basic?
12. What do you observe at low, medium and high pH values?
13. Sketch the graph of pH and enzyme function.
PICK NEXT CHALLENGE
TAKE THE MINI QUIZ
Enzymes and Substrate Concentration
14. What does substrate concentration mean?
15. Write down your hypothesis. Answer the following questions to
help write your hypothesis.
a. What will happen to the enzyme reaction if the
substrate concentration increases?
b. What will happen to the enzyme reaction if the
substrate concentration decreases?
16. What do you observe at low, medium and high substrate
concentration?
17. Sketch the graph of enzyme function and substrate
concentration.
PICK NEXT CHALLENGE
TAKE THE MINI QUIZ
GO BACK TO THE MAIN MENU
The Enzymatic Machine
18. What is the optimum temperature for the enzyme?
19. What is the optimum pH for the enzyme?
20. Can the enzyme be used more than once?
21. What kind of reaction is being driven by the enzyme?
RETURN TO THE MAIN MENU
TAKE FINAL QUIZ
22. What is your overall score on the game?