A6-year-old child ate a peanut butter sandwich at snack time in school. five minutes later, her throat became swollen and she collapsed. this allergic reaction occurred because her body (1) recognized an antigen in peanut butter and produced antibiotics against it (2) digested the white blood cells that can recognize an antigen in peanut butter (3) did not recognize an antigen in peanut butter and could not produce antibodies against it (4) recognized an antigen in peanut butter and produced an immune response

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it provides an alternative energy pathway for the reaction to proceed.

a catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction but is not consumed during the course of the reaction.

catalysts increase the rate of reaction without being used up. they do this by lowering the activation energy needed. with a catalyst, more collisions result in a reaction, so the rate of reaction increases. different reactions need different catalysts.

a catalyst works by providing an alternative reaction pathway to the reaction product. the rate of the reaction is increased as this alternative route has a lower activation energy than the reaction route not mediated by the catalyst.