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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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