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Maxwell
Mar 26, 2017

Nothing. The amount of enzyme is unchanged.

Explanation:

#Enzymes# are proteins that act as biological catalysts. Therefore, they speed up chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy via many mechanism.

They bind to #"substrate"# molecules at the active site, helping to turn them into #"products"#.

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They do not participate in the reactions in any way. They do not change the thermodynamics - the #"Gibbs free energy"# or the #enthalpy# of the reaction or the equilibrium. They are not consumed in the reaction.

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