Question

No amino acid molecule by itself can speed up or catalyze reactions between other molecules; however, when amino acids are joined together to make a protein with catalytic properties, the new structure (enzymatic protein) can speed up the rate of a specific chemical reaction. What does this illustrate? See Concept 1.1

Answer 1

Answer: emergent properties at molecular level

Step-by-step explanation:

Enzyme is a globular protein, the condensation of amino acid units involved bond interactions of the non-polar, hydrophobic R group which pointed away from the watery environments towards the the center of the molecule.

The hydrophilic R groups point to the watery environments. This arrangement ensured solubility. Besides, the bond interaction and inter molecular forces during the interaction of amino acids bonds making and breaking in tertiary structure of protein gave enzyme the three dimensional structure for the precise active sites for enzymatic reaction.

Therefore emergent properties refereed to the new properties acquired by a complex compound or macro- molecules from the bonding or condensation of its smaller units,molecules,or monomers.

These new properties were not present in individual smaller units, in this case amino acids, before bonding.