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What is meant by enzyme specificity?

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The ability of enzyme to bind with specific substrate or catalyze a specific set of chemical reactions,is called "Enzyme Specificity

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Specificity is the ability of an enzyme to choose exact substrate from a group of similar chemical molecules. The specificity is actually a molecular recognition mechanism and it operates through the structural and conformational complementarity between enzyme and substrate. Enzymes show different degrees of specificity towards their substrate.

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