Enzymatic activity of catalase with Cobra SMARTsense

Principle

Enzymatic degradation of the cellular respiratory poison hydrogen peroxide in the liver.

Benefits

• Especially understandable and didactically prepared description of the experiment (reference to everyday life etc.) including protocol questions.
• Future-oriented teaching: Integration into digital science lessons with tablets or smartphones.
• Increased motivation of students by using the intuitive measureAPP.
• Increased media competence.
• Compact, easily transportable experimental set-up
• suitable for demo experiments and practical training
• Flexible test execution thanks to wireless data transmission

Tasks

1. investigation of the enzymatic degradation of hydrogen peroxide, a cell respiratory poison, in the liver
2. examination of the temperature and pH influence on the metabolic activity

Learning Objectives

• Catalase
• cell respiratory poison
• Hydrogen peroxide