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Many chemical reactions in your body can convert reactants to products without an enzyme, even if the process is not efficient. However, if the same chemical reaction runs with an enzyme, how would the following aspects be affected? Sort each item to the appropriate bin. Increases Decreases Stays the Same number of product molecules number of reactant molecules final energy of the products starting energy of the reactants activation energy barrier rate of the reaction Reset Help

          Many chemical reactions in your body can convert reactants to products without an enzyme, even if the process is not efficient. However, if the same chemical reaction runs with an enzyme, how would the following aspects be affected?
Sort each item to the appropriate bin.
Increases
Decreases
Stays the Same
number of product molecules
number of reactant molecules
final energy of the products
starting energy of the reactants
activation energy barrier
rate of the reaction
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many chemical reactions in your body can convert reactants to products without an enzyme even if the process is not efficient however if the same chemical reaction runs with an enzyme how wo 32198

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Hugh D. Young 14th Edition

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12/12/2021

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Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up the rate of chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy. They do not change the overall energy of the reactants or products, nor do they change the equilibrium of the reaction. Show more…

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Many chemical reactions in your body can convert reactants to products without an enzyme, even if the process is not efficient. However, if the same chemical reaction runs with an enzyme, how would the following aspects be affected? Sort each item to the appropriate bin. Increases Decreases Stays the Same number of product molecules number of reactant molecules final energy of the products starting energy of the reactants activation energy barrier rate of the reaction Reset Help

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00:01 Hi there.

00:02 This question is about enzymes.

00:06 And enzymes are biological catalysts.

00:13 It is a protein that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction.

00:21 And it does this by lowering the activation energy.

00:28 All right.

00:29 So if we have a reaction and we have our reactants here, and in order to react, there's activation energy.

00:38 There's energy that they must overcome before the reaction can be.

00:42 So you can think about this as pushing a boulder up this hill until you get to the top, and then the boulder can roll down the hill on its own.

00:51 Well, what a catalyst does is it lowers that activation energy.

00:58 It doesn't change the reactants.

01:00 It doesn't change the products.

01:01 It itself has not changed in the reaction, but it lowers the activation energy, so the reaction can proceed at a faster rate.

01:09 So let's go ahead and classify each of these with that in mind, each of these statements.

01:15 We have three options here.

01:17 We have increases, decreases, or stays the same.

01:28 All right.

01:29 And the first phrase is number of product molecules.

01:36 All right.

01:36 It does not change the amount of product produced.

01:41 So number of product molecules stays the same...

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