Salinity refers to an increase in the dissolved salt content of a body of water. Salinity has great impacts on the type of organisms that live inside the water. In the question given above, the salinity occurs as a result of non natural influence; since most of the organisms living inside the water before probably have specific optimal salinity range, if the salinity exceed the range they can cope with, they will probably migrate away from the water, those that refuse to migrate will probably die out and new species which can cope with the salinity level will emerge.
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,
Question 8-
(a) move out of the cell
(b) cell would shrink
(c) hypertonic
Queston 9-
(a) move into the cell
(b) cell would swell
(c) hypotonic
