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Hi can you help me come up with a hypothesis for a plan and design lab?

the problem statement was that Mary uses an enzyme based detergent for washing and noticed that it cleaned her clothes better in warm water rather than cold water.

Provide a hypothesis to the problem statment.​

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The enzymes in the detergent have an optimal temperature closer to that of the warm water at which they have the greatest reaction velocity.

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Enzymes function best at a specific pH and temperature. This is due to the chemical characteristics of the enzyme. In this case it was observed that the enzyme was able to clean better at a higher temperature. To test this you could measure the reaction velocities using a kinetic enzyme assay that uses a spectrophotometer to measure the absorbance of a sample over a period of time to record the change. The independent variable would be the temperature.

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