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3. Using Graphs to Understand Enzymes

                        Next we’re going to use              Nooooo!
                      graphs to help us do some               Graphs?!
                                                         Calculations?!
                             basic calculations.          I can’t do it!
                                                           I’m doomed.
                                   I hope everybody’s
                                    as excited as I am!                                   I was afraid
                                                                                              of this...

Don’t worry, Kumi. It’s not                                      That does sound
     as hard as you think.                                       important, but it
                                                                  doesn’t mean I
   Graphing Data is vital to
 the study of biochemistry,                                        have to like it!
  as well as to most other
                                  Measuring the reaction of an
          types of science.   enzyme and graphing its numerical

                                    values makes it possible to
                                 understand the reaction in new

                                    ways and advance research.

    Graphs are                The graphs you hate so
useful to track               much might help us cure

   weight loss                       cancer one day!
too, you know...
                                                           Yeah! I’ll give it
                                                             my best shot!

                                                                                   That’s the
                                                                                       spirit!

               Pssst

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