Enzyme Reactions

Last updated May 26, 2023 Edit

• Biology
• Enzymes

• Released from cells
• Used to digest food
• Required to use polymers for nutrition
• Single-celled organisms release extracellular enzymes into their immediate environment

• Act within cells
• Synthesis of polymers from monomers
• Destroy toxins such as hydrogen peroxide

• Starch polymers are broken down into maltose (disaccharide) by amylase from pancreas and salivary glands
• Maltose broken into glucose by maltase in small intestines
• Glucose absorbed into blood

• Trypsin is a form of protease
• Catalyses proteins -> smaller peptides

• Building up reactions
• Combining two reactants into one product
• Protein synthesis

• Breaking down
• Food digestion
• Breaking one reactant into two products

Enzymes