Q: How do enzymes accelerate chemical reactions?

Flexi Says:

• Enzymes are catalysts in living things. They speed up biochemical reactions.
• Under the conditions inside living cells, biochemical reactions would occur too slowly to support life without the help of enzymes.
• Enzymes increase the rate of biochemical reactions by reducing the amount of activation energy needed for reactants to start reacting.
• More than 1000 different enzymes are necessary for human life, and many help digest food. Two examples are amylase and pepsin.