Question

5. What does catalase do? Use the terms substrate and product in your response.

Answer 1

~Enzymes are biological molecules that catalyze increase the rates of chemical reactions. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at beginning of the process, (substrates) are converted into molecules (products). Almost all chemical reactions in a biological cell need enzymes in order to occur at rates sufficient for life. Since enzymes are selective for their substrates and speed up only a few reactions from among many possibilities, the set of enzymes made in a cell determines which metabolic pathways occur in that cell