How do enzymes act as catalyst to speed up biological reactions

Enzymes are biological catalysts. ... Thus enzymes speed up reactions by lowering activation energy. Many enzymes change shape when substrates bind. This is termed "induced fit", meaning that the precise orientation of the enzyme required for catalytic activity can be induced by the binding of the substrate.on:

Chemical reactions occur at the active site of enzymes, where a precise 3D orientation of amino acids is an important feature of catalysis.

Catalysts lower the activation energy for reactions. The lower the activation energy for a reaction, the faster the rate.

Activation energy is energy that must be added to get a reaction started, which is recovered as the reaction proceeds.

Enzymes can catalyze reactions through a variety of ways including destabilizing the bonds within the substrate.

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1) gene flow

- it is described as the transfer of genes from one population to another population so that frequency of gene is increased.

-a zebra migrates to join a different herd of zebras.

2) natural selection

- a mechanism of evolutionary change in which individuals with advantageous traits survive and reproduce whereas the others ( those that can not adapt) eliminate from the population.

-competition for sunlight leads to taller trees.

3) mutation

- permanent change in the nucleotide sequence of dna ( genetic material) that could have harmful or useful consequences.

-the dna of a snake changes to make its venom stronger.

4) genetic drift - it is a random phenomenon ( that occurs by chance such as fire) that results in change in the gene frequency in a small population.    

-a grassfire randomly sweeps through a population of buffalo and kills most of the animals.

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