No amino acid molecule by itself can speed up or catalyze reactions between other molecules; however, when amino acids are joined together to make a protein with catalytic properties, the new structure (enzymatic protein) can speed up the rate of a specific chemical reaction. what does this illustrate? see concept 1.1

emergent properties at molecular level

Explanation:

Enzyme is a globular protein, the condensation of amino acid units   involved bond interactions of  the non-polar, hydrophobic R group  which pointed  away from the watery  environments towards the  the center of the molecule.

The hydrophilic R groups point to the watery environments.  This arrangement  ensured solubility. Besides, the bond interaction and inter molecular forces  during the  interaction of amino acids  bonds making and breaking  in tertiary structure  of  protein  gave enzyme the  three dimensional structure for  the  precise  active sites for enzymatic  reaction.

Therefore emergent properties  refereed to the new properties  acquired by a complex compound or macro- molecules from the bonding or condensation of its  smaller units,molecules,or monomers.

These new properties were not present in individual smaller units, in this case amino acids, before bonding.

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