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Have the uses of enzymes in industry and medicine been a benefit to society?
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Have the uses of enzymes in industry and medicine been a benefit to society? Enzymes are biological catalysts and they speed up most chemical reactions without altering the final product. They are extremely important as without them most reactions in cells would be so slow that they would not really go ahead at all. Enzymes are proteins and they generally only work with one substrate. They work by providing an active site the same shape as the substrate molecules, they bind with the substrate and cause the reaction to speed up. At high temperatures (above 40ºC) their reaction rates slow and above 60ºC the reaction stops completely because they are deactivated by the heat (denatured). However usually an enzyme is not destroyed by the reaction it causes and can therefore be used again. (6) Enzymes have a great number of uses from food processing to helping with medical diagnoses and treatments -...
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