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Is a Catalyst an Enzyme?


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  1. Enzymes are proteins that increase the rate of chemical reactions.
  2. Substances that increase or decrease the rate of a chemical reaction but cannot add take place of reactants only provide a platform to the reacting substances are catalysts.
  3. Biological catalysts are enzymes.
  4. For reactions, catalysts lower the activation energy.
  5. For a reaction, the lower the activation energy, the quicker the rate.
  6. Thus, by reducing activation energy, enzymes speed up reactions.
  7. In reactions, catalysts are not used, and reactions take a large time to complete.

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