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Describe and explain the effects of pH, temperature, enzyme concentration and substrate concentration on enzyme activity

pH : All enzymes have an optimum pH value which is very specific. This is because hydrogen ions and hydroxide ions have very significant changes on the tertiary structure of an enzyme, which can cause substr...
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Putting bee honey on a cut kills bacteria. Honey contains a high concentration of sugar. Use your knowledge of water potential to suggest how putting honey on a cut kills bacteria.

Once honey is added to an infected cut, the osmotic gradient favours water moving from the bacterial cells to the honey. This is because the water potential is lower in the honey. As a result of the loss of ...
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Consider a cone of vertical height H (in metres) and base radius R (in metres) which is full with water. The cone, at time t=0, starts to leak such that it loses water at a rate of k m^3 per second. Give an expression for the rate of change of H.

L = (H 2 +R 2 ) 1/2 V = (1/3)πR 2 (H 2 +R 2 ) 1/2 dV/dt = -k dH/dt = dH/dV × dv/dt dV/dH = (1/3)πR 2 H(H 2 +R 2 ) 1/2 Thus, dH/dt = -3k/(πR 2 H(H 2 +R 2 ) 1/2 ) ​​​​​ ​​​​ ​​
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Integrate the following function: f(x) = ln(x)

∫ln(x)dx = xln(x) - ∫x/x dx = xln(x) - x + C
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Why is the differential of a constant zero?

Any constant (say k) can be rewritten as kx 0 since x 0 =1. When you differentiate this, the 0 which is the power of the x term gets dragged to the front and is multiplied with the rest of the expression (ac...
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