This card details how excessive body temperature denatures enzymes by increasing molecular vibration, breaking hydrogen bonds that maintain their 3D shape, thus altering the active site and preventing proper function.
This card explains that if body temperature is too high, it causes increased kinetic energy, excessive molecular vibration, and breaks hydrogen bonds in enzymes, altering their active site and preventing enzyme-substrate complex formation, leading to denaturation.
| Front | What occurs if body temperature too high |
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| Back | Increased kinetic energy Molecules vibrate too much Hydrogen bonds that hold enzyme in 3D Teriary shape break shape of active site changed E-S complex no longer form Enzymes become denatured |
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