Question

Medal and Fan! I really need help with these two questions...please help anyone who can :)

1.)How can two molecules with the same chemical formula react differently?
2.)What happens to an enzyme once it catalyzes a chemical reaction?

Answer 1

1.) different substances sometimes have the same chemical formula, such as glucose and fructose, but they have different components so they act differently.

2.) after the enzyme catalyzes the reaction, it will reset so that it can receive another substrate.

Answer 2

does that make sense @nickirivera ?

Answer 3

^she has the right idea. I'd just like to add my 2 cents,
1) they are called isomers. the same chemical formula, in some cases, can also lead to different functional groups which are the reasons why molecules react differently.
2) "reset" = adopt original conformation

Answer 4

nice thanks for elaborating @aaronq

Answer 5

np!

Answer 6

thank you soo much @jamierox4ev3r

Answer 7

actually in the first question,though having same formula the various organic compounds have different stereogenic structure,meaning the elements arranged around each other in different position in 3 dimensional plane,so they act differently.

Answer 8

thank u @sagnik_das