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How the does the shape of an enzyme affect the reaction?
1.he shape of an enzyme depends on the reaction that it needs to catalyze.
2. Enzymes with more active sites can catalyze several reactions at once.
3. The shape of an enzyme determines which reaction it can catalyze.
4. Enzymes change shape after they catalyze a reaction and become waste products.

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The shape of the enzyme determines which reaction it can catalyze.

Step-by-step explanation:

The enzymes are highly specific in nature. They catalyze the biological reactions by lowering their activation energy and thus accelerating the chemical reaction taking place.

The shape of enzymes plays a key role in its function as it has specific substrate binding sites, with which it would form an enzyme-substrate complex. Change in the shape will also alter the active sites and consequently, enzyme is dysfunctional.

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