What is enzymes .and what are the uses of it?

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What is enzymes .and what are the uses of it?

Answer 1

Enzymes are biological catalysts.

Basically this means they are used in your body to speed up chemical reactions.  These are necessary for life, because if these reactions occurred at their normal rate, it would take too long and you would die.  This is why your body produces a variety of enzymes with different purposes, mainly for digestion though.

Answer 2

Enzymes are natural catalysts(compounds to feed reactions) in your body that speed up reactions that take place. They are proteins for when you digest food, they help break apart the food to more easily digest it.

Answer 3

Enzymes are biological catalyst. The term enzyme comes from zymosis, the Greek word for fermentation, a process accomplished by yeast cells and long known to the brewing industry, which occupied the attention of many 19th-century chemists.

Louis Pasteur recognized in 1860 that enzymes were essential to fermentation but assumed that their catalytic action was inextricably linked with the structure and life of the yeast cell. Not until 1897 was it shown by German chemist Edward Büchner that cell-free extracts of yeast could ferment sugars to alcohol and carbon dioxide; Büchner denoted his preparation zymase. This important achievement was the first indication that enzymes could function independently of the cell.

The first enzyme molecule to be isolated in pure crystalline form was urease, prepared from the jack bean in 1926 by American biochemist J. B. Sumner, who suggested, contrary to prevailing opinion, that the molecule was a protein. In the period from 1930 to 1936, pepsin, chymotrypsin, and trypsin were successfully crystallized; it was confirmed that the crystals were protein, and the protein nature of enzymes was thereby firmly established.

Answer 4

enzymes are made up of proteins.  they act as catalysts in biological functions, meaning they lower the activation energy making the reaction move faster.

Answer 5

Enzymes are little dirt eaters isn't that what Omo ads tell us.

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Answer 6

i dont no