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Biomolecules — BIOLOGY STD 11 Science — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 ScienceBIOLOGYBiomolecules2 Marks
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How does temperature and pH affect activity of enzyme?
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Answer

The activity of enzyme is affected by the following as:
  1. Temperature: Enzyme becomes temporarily inactive at lower temperature and its activity gets completely destroyed at high temperature.
  2. pH: Any change in pH of the medium alter the tertiary structure of protein.Thus, decreasing the enzyme activity.

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