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How is an enzyme related to its substrate?

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An enzyme will interact with only one type of substance or group of substances, called the substrate, to catalyze a certain kind of reaction. Because of this specificity, enzymes often have been named by adding the suffix “-ase” to the substrate's name (as in urease, which catalyzes the breakdown of urea

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it binds its substrate

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