I became quieter, more organized and I finally stopped losing my keys. 1  I started taking ADD medication relatively late in life, at least for a millennial. I was 20, an honors student at a good university and I'd made it through my relatively successful academic career without being medicated.
(Science: Biochemistry). A catalyst or a chemical produced by cells to generally speed up specific chemical reaction without changing the chemical reaction at the end of the reaction.upplement. Enzyme is usually a protein molecule with a characteristic sequence of amino acids that fold to produce a specific three-dimensional structure, which gives the molecule unique properties. Other molecule with catalytic activity is ribozyme, an enzyme made of RNA rather than protein.
A substrate is the substance upon which an enzyme acts in an enzymatic reaction. Enzymes are biological catalysts that increase the rate of chemical reactions by decreasing the activation energy required for that reaction. An enzyme catalyzes a chemical reaction converting a substrate reactant to a product. An individual enzyme generally has more than one substrate and may be specific to several reaction intermediates that are part of an over-all reaction.