TOPIC: ENZYMES

📌 PRACTICE QUESTION AND ANSWER

Q.1. What are enzymes?

Ans. Enzymes are biocatalysts, which are heat-labile, soluble proteins produced by living cells and are highly specific in their action. They are colloidal in nature and may contain a non-protein moiety (co-enzyme or prosthetic group).

Q.2. What are the similarities of enzyme (biocatalysts) with chemical inorganic catalysts?

Ans. Enzymes (biocatalysts) share some of the properties of chemical inorganic catalysts.

They are as follows:

• They are neither consumed nor produced during the course of a reaction.
• They do not cause reactions to take place; they speed up reactions that would ordinarily proceed in a much slower rate in their absence.