No amino acid molecule by itself can speed up or catalyze reactions between other molecules; however, when amino acids are joine
d together to make a protein with catalytic properties, the new structure (enzymatic protein) can speed up the rate of a specific chemical reaction. What does this illustrate?
Remember the proteins are groups of thousands of amino acids, by their owns, since they are very small units, they can not act as a catalyst.
But as a polymer, the protein enzyme, have different shape, size and physical and chemical properties than a single monomer.
Remember also the proteins to be active, they need certain number of amino acids join together to form a specific shape that is going to match with another molecule to speed the chemical reaction and act as an enzyme.
Emergent properties are those properties that appear as a result of the combination of smaller parts which themselves do not individually exhibit any of such properties.
Emergent properties are properties of a group of items, whether insects, atoms or buildings, that you would not find in any of the individual items.
The amino acids are individual molecules, when they combine to give enzymes, they display properties that individual amino acids do not exhibit separately. This a typical example if emergent properties.
We will not be able to tell the genotype of the purple parent as it can either be a homo_zygous dominant or hetero_zygous. Without the complete genotype of the offspring, we would not be able to tell.
