Genes and Enzymes
What do Enzymes do?
Genes include instructions in the mRNA on how to make enzymes.
Ribosomes use those instructions to make the enzymes.
Enzymes are just the right shape to bind with the reactants in chemical reactions in the body.
Enzymes speed up chemical reactions by reducing the activation energy of chemical reactions.
This allows more product to be created in less time and for less energy.
SNP’s can cause the enzyme to be the wrong shape.
If the enzyme is the wrong shape, the products of the reaction can’t bind to the enzyme, and the result is that the enzyme no longer lowers the activation energy of the reaction.
Now we no longer get fast, cheap chemical reactions which means we get less of the product of that chemical reaction.
Our bodies now have to make due with less of the product then they would like and this can lead to deficiencies which can lead to disease and illnesses over time.