Enzymes

• Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts, speeding up chemical reactions in living organisms.
• Enzymes

  Biological catalysts
• Catalysts

  chemicals that speed up chemical reactions without being used up in the reaction
• Substrate

  the substance with which the enzyme reacts
• Product

  Formed at the end of the reaction
• Denatured enzyme

  Has lost its shape and function
• Inhibitors

  chemicals that negatively effect enzyme activity