Clothespinase
Name_________________________________
This clothespin is a model of an enzyme.
1. Identify the macromolecule class to which
enzymes belong.
2. Identify the level of structure represented by
the clothespin. Justify your answer.
3. Describe several ways in which the clothespin is a good model of an enzyme.
4. List two ways in which the clothespin is not a good model of an enzyme.
5. If the clothespin were an enzyme, and a wet sock was the substrate, what would be the
product?
6. What would you have to do to the clothespin to represent:
a) competitive inhibition?
b) non-competitive inhibition?
c) denaturation?