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Biomolecules

Question
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What are enzymes?

Solution

Enzymes are proteins that catalyze biological reaction. They are very specific in nature and catalyze only a particular reaction for a particular substrate. Enzymes are usually named after a particular. For example, the enzyme used to catalyses  the hydrolysis of maltose in glucose is named as maltase. 
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