Explore metabolism as the full set of enzyme-controlled cell reactions, and how specific enzymes determine which reactions occur and when in IB Biology HL C1.1.2.
Outline the importance of enzymes to metabolic processes.
a. increase rate of reaction/speed up reaction
b. lower activation energy
c. a specific enzyme for each reaction/substrate
d. metabolic process/pathway blocked if an enzyme is inhibited/absent
e. end-product inhibition can control metabolic pathways
f. differences in metabolism as cells produce different enzymes during differentiation