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    1. Claire, a Great Dane, is experiencing weight loss and lethargy despite a normal appetite. As a veterinary technician, you must learn about metabolism, digestion, and enzymes to diagnose Claire's condition. 2. Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy needed to start the reaction. Different enzymes have specific shapes and active sites that determine what substrates they can bind to and catalyze reactions for. 3. By running tests on Claire's enzyme function, low enzyme production is found to be the cause of her symptoms. With low enzyme levels, metabolic reactions involved in digestion and energy production cannot occur properly, explaining her weight loss and letharg

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    1. Claire, a Great Dane, is experiencing weight loss and lethargy despite a normal appetite. As a veterinary technician, you must learn about metabolism, digestion, and enzymes to diagnose Claire's condition. 2. Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy needed to start the reaction. Different enzymes have specific shapes and active sites that determine what substrates they can bind to and catalyze reactions for. 3. By running tests on Claire's enzyme function, low enzyme production is found to be the cause of her symptoms. With low enzyme levels, metabolic reactions involved in digestion and energy production cannot occur properly, explaining her weight loss and letharg

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    1. Claire, a Great Dane, is experiencing weight loss and lethargy despite a normal appetite. As a veterinary technician, you must learn about metabolism, digestion, and enzymes to diagnose Claire's condition. 2. Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy needed to start the reaction. Different enzymes have specific shapes and active sites that determine what substrates they can bind to and catalyze reactions for. 3. By running tests on Claire's enzyme function, low enzyme production is found to be the cause of her symptoms. With low enzyme levels, metabolic reactions involved in digestion and energy production cannot occur properly, explaining her weight loss and letharg

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    Student Guide: Enzymes - AP STEM Case and Handbook

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    1. Claire, a Great Dane, is experiencing weight loss and lethargy despite a normal appetite. As a veterinary technician, you must learn about metabolism, digestion, and enzymes to diagnose Claire's condition. 2. Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy needed to start the reaction. Different enzymes have specific shapes and active sites that determine what substrates they can bind to and catalyze reactions for. 3. By running tests on Claire's enzyme function, low enzyme production is found to be the cause of her symptoms. With low enzyme levels, metabolic reactions involved in digestion and energy production cannot occur properly, explaining her weight loss and letharg

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    The key takeaways are that Claire, a Great Dane, is experiencing weight loss and lethargy. As a veterinary technician, you will examine Claire, run tests, and analyze data to determine the cause and treatment. Enzymes and metabolism are important to understand Claire's condition.

    Claire's symptoms are low energy and weight loss despite maintaining a normal appetite.

    Metabolism is the term for all the chemical reactions that happen in the body. The two types of metabolic reactions are catabolism, which breaks down molecules, and anabolism, which builds up and combines molecules.

    Student Guide: Enzymes - AP STEM Case and Handbook

    Introduction: Claire, a Great Dane, is experiencing extreme weight loss and lethargy despite
    maintaining a normal appetite. As a veterinary technician, you must learn about metabolism,
    digestion, and enzymes to help Claire. As part of this Gizmo, you will examine Claire, run lab
    tests, and analyze data to determine the cause and treat her weight loss.

    Vocabulary: As new vocabulary is introduced, the words are presented in the Gizmo as
    orange text - clicking the orange text opens the glossary page for that term. You can use the glossary at any
    point.

    1. Launch the Gizmo and follow the instructions provided to collect data on Claire. The questions below are
    sequential.

    2. What are Claire's symptoms?

    Low Energy

    Increased Appetite

    Weight Loss

    3. Define "metabolism"

    is the word for all of the chemical reactions that happen in the body.

    4. Metabolism is a combination of two types of reactions. What are these? Define them.
    type of reaction definition

    Catabolism A metabolic reaction that breaks down of molecules into


    smaller units

    Anabolism A metabolic reaction that builds up and combines molecules

    5. What type of reaction is given in the "Chemical Reactions"


    example?
    The anabolic reaction

    6. The reaction rate is the amount of product produced in a


    specific time. Why is reaction rate important for biological
    organisms?
    7. "Enzymes are biological catalysts". What does this mean?

    8. Every chemical reaction, including the reactions that happen inside a living organism, requires an initial input
    of energy. The energy needed to start a chemical reaction is called the

    9. Several different types of energy can be used to "give" a reaction its activation energy. List these below:
    thermal

    collision

    10. In biological organisms thermal energy cannot be easily added to start a reaction. Instead, enzymes are used.
    Explain HOW enzymes speed up the rate of a reaction.

    11. Label the reaction graph provided with the following labels:
    activation energy, reactant energy, produce energy.
    a)

    b)

    c)

    12. Fill in the blank:

    Enzymes do not change the energy of the reactants or the products. They speed up a reaction by lowering the
    energy of….
    13. Each of your 80 000 enzymes has its own highly specific shape, its structure. What determines the
    structure of an enzyme?

    14. Because of their specific structure, enzymes differ from each other. Every enzyme has a different active site.
    What happens at the active site of an enzyme? Can the substrate of one enzyme fit into the active site of
    another?

    15. How do high temperature and pH changes affect the workings of an enzyme? Explain.

    16. Once you are back to Claire's Lab Data, fill in the table below:
    enzyme location function

    pepsin

    protease

    carbohyd
    ra se

    lipase

    17. Low enzyme function can be caused by a range of issues. In your Gizmo, explain how each of these could
    affect enzyme function and what happens when you test these in Claire.
    Potential explanation Claire's results
    issue
    active site
    mutation

    abnormal
    pH

    low
    enzyme
    productio
    n

    18. Science function by asking and testing questions. As more information becomes known new questions can
    be asked and hypotheses can be revised to make them more and more accurate. At some point, once enough
    information has been gathered, a conclusion can be made. Explain how this Gizmo illustrates that process.

    19. Optional extension:

    As more evidence gathers, science is replaced by better science. Use a real-life example to explain this. As a
    good starting point, ave a look at:
    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-six-months-what-we-know

    Bogna Haddad @ OCDSB, August 2020

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