Biology A-Level
Activation energy and enzyme–substrate complexes
What Activation energy and enzyme–substrate complexes means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Enzymes lower the activation energy of a reaction and bind substrate at a complementary active site to form an enzyme–substrate complex.
Topics that use Activation energy and enzyme–substrate complexes
- Enzymes (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Cellular metabolism
- Coenzyme
- Cofactor
- Competitive inhibitors
- Digestion and absorption of products
- Effect of missing cofactors on reaction rate
- Effect of substrate concentration on inhibition
- Enzyme specificity and active-site complementarity
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