14.25 What are enzymes?
14.25 What are enzymes?
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14.25
Enzymes are naturally occurring simple conjugate proteins acting as specific catalysts in all processes. In contrast to ordinary chemical catalyst, it loses activity by pH or temperature change.
For example:- the enzyme used to catalyze the hydrolysis of maltose into glucose is named as maltase.
Enzymes are highly specific, i.e., a particular enzyme catalyses a specific reaction. For example, urase attacks on urea. This specific action is due to active sites present in the enzyme molecule (E) that fits into substrate (S) and forms E-S complex which changes into product P and E.
Enzymes increase the speed of reactions. They can cataly
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