Edexcel IGCSE Biology 2.11 Temperature and Enzyme Function Questions

Practise how temperature changes enzyme activity by linking faster molecular collisions near the optimum to active-site changes and loss of substrate binding at high temperatures.

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Explain why warming speeds enzyme reactions up to the optimum through more kinetic energy and collisions.
Explain why above the optimum, denaturation changes enzyme active-site shape so the substrate no longer fits.
Interpret temperature-response data from reaction rates, dough height, digestion time or clotting time.

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Wheat seeds contain stores of a large insoluble molecule.
This molecule is digested by amylase as the seeds germinate.

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Suggest why the rate of oxygen absorption is greater at $22^{\circ} \mathrm{C}$ than at $12^{\circ} \mathrm{C}$ .

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Edexcel IGCSE Biology 2.11 Temperature and Enzyme Function Questions question 1