NAME: _______________________________________________________________
Period_____________
Date:
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Enzyme Station: Gallery Walk
Biology 2022
Station 1: Activation Energy
1. What is activation energy?
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2. Why do all chemical reactions require activation energy?
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Station 2: Biochemical Reactions
1. What are biochemical reactions?
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2. What is metabolism?
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3. Describe catabolic reactions?
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4. What is an example of a biochemical reaction?
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Station 3: Enzymes
5. What are enzymes? ______________________________________________
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6. Are enzymes reactants? Explain your
answer.__________________________________________________________
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7. What happens to an enzyme after a biochemical
reaction._________________________________________________________
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Station 4: Enzymes
8. How do enzymes affect the rate of a biochemical
reaction?_________________________________________________________
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9. Give an example of how enzymes help maintain life.
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Station 5: Enzyme Function
10. Look at the graph. What happens to biochemical reactions without an
enzyme?_________________________________________________________
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11. How does an enzyme speed up the
reaction?_________________________________________________________
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Station 6: Enzyme Function
12. What do Enzymes bind together? _____________________________________
13. What is the site called on the enzyme called where the binding occurs?
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14. Can the active site fit any substrate? If not Why do you think that is?
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Station 7: Enzyme Function
15. What are some conditions the activities of enzymes depend on?
a. __________________________________
b. __________________________________
16. What temperature do biochemical reactions work best? _______________________
17. What is the relationship between enzyme activity and temperature?
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18. What is denaturing?
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19. What happens when temperatures go back to normal for the enzyme? ____________
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20. What is an example of a protein that does not regain it’s original shape after it has been
denatured?
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