How Enzymes Work.

You are probably familiar with this term from any science class you ever took. As it is commonly known, enzymes speed up chemical reactions. But, have you ever thought of how they do such a thing? They do this by lowering the amount of activation energy that the reaction needs. Activation energy is the amount of energy that a reaction requires in order to take place. Naturally it takes time to accumulate enough free energy to catalyze the reaction. Let’s say that a reaction needs an x amount of activation energy. Instead of waiting a minute or so for free energy to gather, you can add an enzyme, lowering the activation energy amount to x-5 thus taking a significantly less amount of time for the reaction to occur.