The term scalawag was originally used as far back as the 1840s to describe a farm animal of little value; it later came to refer to a worthless person. For opponents of Reconstruction, scalawags were even lower on the scale of humanity than carpetbaggers, as they were viewed as traitors to the South.
Enzymes speed up reactions by lowering the activation energy of the reaction concerned. The enzyme creates a lower energy pathway than if the enzyme wasn't there. For example, â¦ hydrogen peroxide, H2O2, decomposes when it gets warmer to H2O(l) and O2(g).
Enzymes are very efficient catalysts for biochemical reactions. They speed up reactions by providing an alternative reaction pathway of lower activation energy. Reaction profiles: uncatalysed and enzyme-catalysed. Like all catalysts, enzymes take part in the reaction - that is how they provide an alternative reaction pathway.