C. Immediately after mass extinction events D-50 million years after a background extinction event.
C. Is The Answer!
Answer :B. By changing the shape of the enzyme's active site.
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Explanation: This is a type of inhibition , in which a molecule binds to another part of the enzyme instead of the active site.
On binding, it disrupts the normal hydrogen bond and hydrophobic interactions holding the enzyme molecule in its three dimensional shape, therefore distorting the conformation and ACTIVE SITE of the enzyme (changed it shape).
Since the active site is the precise location enzyme must bind with substrates for enzymatic reactions,this makes the enzyme not fit for binding with the substrate, therefore the efficiency is reduced. No substrate-enzyme complex, and hence no substrate-product complex for the release of products, this brings down the turnover rate and eventually
<u>the rate of reaction of the enzyme</u>
Thus, the enzyme function is totally blocked, even in high concentration of the substrate,
Process by which the internal structure of a mineral is altered by the addition or removal of elements. Change in phase (mineral type) and composition are due to the action of chemical agents. Chemical weathering is dependent on available surface for reaction temperature and presence of chemically active fluids.
