leidiot Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 My friends and I are doing a project on digestions and it would help if we could find out how to test for enzymes. Thanks:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuinhen Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Enzymes are specific that is they react with certain pH , certain substrate . Thus we can manipulate the above variables to test the enzyme . FOR EXAMPLE ( CONSTANT TEMPERATURE , pH) we have enzyme a , b , c to test . 1)we add 5cm egg slice into ezyme a , b , c in different beakers with equal volume . 2)After 30 mins . measure the length of each egg slices . Protease digest the protein content in the egg , thus the beaker which has shorter egg slices contains Protease . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanJ Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Actually I would use carbohydrase and bread - same method except you weigh the bread (making shure its dry so the water does not affect the results). length is a problem because the enzymes will catalyse any surface so hight could decrease instead of length which is why weight is probably better Cheers, Ryan Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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