What you will learn in Enzymes and energy

1. 1. What a catalyst does

   The rate rises by orders of magnitude while two other numbers do not move.

2. 2. The four curves

   Temperature, pH, substrate and enzyme concentration — and one curve that is two mechanisms.

3. 3. Stopping an enzyme

   Diagnosing an inhibitor from how it responds to more substrate.

4. 4. Respiration, stage by stage

   Auditing the ATP yield, and finding out what fermentation is actually for.

5. 5. Life and the second law

   Why building order does not break thermodynamics, in one boundary switch.