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An enzyme is a large _____ molecule. carbohydrate nucleic acid polysaccharide protein

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polysaccharide protein

Enzymes are proteins that speeds up the rate of chemical reaction in a living organism . An enzyme acts as catalyst for specific chemical reaction, converting a specific sets of reactants called substrates into specific products with out enzymes life would not be exist

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Enzymes are identified to catalyze more than 5,000 biochemical reaction types. Most enzymes are proteins, although a few are catalytic RNA molecules. Enzymes' specificity appears in their unusual three-dimensional structures. Like all enzymes, enzymes improve the reaction rate by decreasing its activation potential.

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