Carbohydrates often receive negative attention as the dieter's enemy. Yet the American Dietetic Association argues that they should be your main source of energy, accounting for 45 to 65 percent of your total daily calories. That's because carbs are your body's quickest fuel source, ultimately yielding the simple sugar glucose. Glucose fuels metabolic reactions throughout your body and is the only form of energy that your brain can use.
Before even using oil immersion lens, make sure you set the microscope to the lowest objective 4x.
You want to start small before increasing the magnification. Before you move to the next power (from 4x to 10x), make sure your center is focused using the coarse adjustment. Then move to 10x, and do the same adjustment. Then onto 40x, and once you get to 100x, use the fine focus (not coarse focus! because it will move the speciman a lot which messes up your field of view. Fine focus is just refinning so the picture appears clear.
Now, when performing oil immersion, get a dropper, and carefully drop an oil on the speciman, and get a slider to cover on top of it (BUT DO IT SLOWLY! you don't want to get any bubbles in it).
Enzymes are proteins that are biological catalysts
They reduce the activation energy required for a reaction to occur and thus speed up a reaction
Temperature, above a certain point (optimum temperature) causes them to break down and they are gradually destroyed (denaturing)
They work best at a particular pH (optimum pH) and are once again destroyed by low or high pH's
They have a specific shape, with one particular part, known as the active site, that is specific to the substrate they speed the reaction of. These means they are specific to one type of reaction.
They aren't used in the reaction so they're re-usable.
If it isn't one of these then it is not one of the properties of enzymes
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