Savanah Autman

 Types of Enzymes. By: Savanah Autman. Date: June 9, 2021. Within this question, we will discuss the structures and origins of enzymes. As different living organisms, microbes respond to their environment, making changes within their internal environment and outward different types of structures that will be able to cope with fluctuations within their environment. Through generation to generation, microbes display a number of successful adaptations to any particular environment that will be able to thrive there overtime as well as the course of random mutations will also slowly enhance their specificity to that environment. Part of this response here is also the acquisition of energy, that is followed by the processing of the many energy molecules that will turn into usable free energy, and finally the use of that free energy to build up the important molecules the organism will really need. Chemical reactions can have remarkably high thresholds for beginning; these are known as activation energies. In general chemistry, the individuals will use catalysts within reactions for the overall energy required to begin the reaction. Enzymes on the other hand though, function as catalysts for any biochemical reaction out there. The enzymes also speed up the reactions by providing an alternative reaction pathway of lower activation energy. Without the enzymes, the reactions will instead, take place at a terribly slow rate than how it normally is for the pace of one’s metabolism which means in other words, that they speed up the chemical reactions in all living things necessary. “There are also two different types of enzymes, one that can help to join the specific molecules and other types help break down specific molecules apart into separate molecules. Enzymes play many important roles outside the cell as well. One of the best examples of this is the digestive system. For instance, it is enzymes in your digestive system that break food down in your digestive system break food down into small molecules that can be absorbed by the body.” References. Stryer L, Berg JM, Tymoczko JL (2002). Biochemistry (5th ed.). San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme Holmes FL (2003). "Enzymes". In Heilbron JL (ed.). The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 270. Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme