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A-Level Biology OCR A

Enzymes Metabolic Reactions Conditions Exmplain Life Importance Important

Enzymes are essential for life as they catalyze vital metabolic reactions rapidly under mild cellular conditions, avoiding the need for harsh environmental factors that could harm the cell.

Enzymes are necessary for life because they significantly speed up crucial metabolic reactions that would otherwise occur too slowly or require damaging high temperatures and pressures.

Front Exmplain why enzymes are necessary for life.
Back Importance of enzymes:
  • Most important metabolic reactions are very slow without catalysts and would need to happen at very high temp and pressures to be quick enough for importnat life processes
  • These conditions would damage cell components and impossible to reach in living cells
  • Enzymes solve the problem - speed up metabolic reactions without the need for harsh environmental conditions

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