Enzyme

- At very low temperatures, enzymes are inactive. - The activity of enzymes increases when the temperature increases (and therefore the reactions that they work on, or catalyze, will also become faster). - Each enzyme has a special temperature that they are most active. This is the optimum temperature for that enzyme. Each enzyme has its own optimum temperature. - When the temperature is too high, the enzymes are destroyed, or denatured.

Effect of temperature

 Different enzymes work best at different pH. You will understand this better in Nutrition digestion. - The pH that makes the enzyme most active is known as the optimum pH. - If the pH is very high or very low, enzymes can be denatured. Therefore, how fast the enzyme can catalyse depends on factors like temperature or pH. 2 other factors that affect the speed of enzyme reactions are: - Concentration of substrate - when substrate concentration increases, the speed of reaction increases. - Concentration of enzymes - the higher the concentration of enzyme, the faster the speed of reaction.