Wednesday, 5 October 2011

The Enzyme Game


Whilst researching I looked at Enzymes and how they work. I remember from Biology at school thinking that it was amazing that each specific enzyme is designed to react with its counterpart substrate. So in order to catalyse a reaction the enzyme will attach onto the molecules in the substrate and change them. They fit together like geometric jigsaw pieces and once the substrate has been altered they break apart again. I made this little game to illustrate how they work. You have to match up the enzyme shapes to their substrate shapes.

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