Question

What is the reaction that the enzyme catalyzes?

Answer 1

when a substrate reacts with something it forms a new product. Sometimes that very reaction needs some "help" to happen. It requires a lot of energy to form certain products whose intermediate product is very unstable and hard to achieve. An ENZYME can help a reaction take place by reducing the ACTIVATION ENERGY of the reaction (the energy needed for the reaction to take place). The less energy needed for a reaction to take place, the more likely and more easily it can take place. A reaction that uses an enzyme (not all reactions use an enzyme), is called an Enzyme Catalyzed Reaction