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Enzyme
~ ENZYME id+ biol> A CATALYST PROTEIN or A PROTEIN PROMOTING CHEMICAL REACTIONS from gr ZUGO = YOKE implying TO JOIN ZYMEN LEAVEN ZYME suffix as in enZYME ZYMURGY biol> CHEMISTRY OF FERMENTATION in contrast to "DEAD" or INNERT CHEMISTRY LIVING CHEMISTRY or BIOCHEMISTRY CONCERNS METABOLISM AND ITS ENZYMATIC BASIS WITHOUT ENZYMES CHEMICAL CHANGES AND REACTIONS ARE SLOW AS ARE THOSE OF INERT CHEMICAL REACTIONS ENZYMES HAVE LESSER ENERGY REQUIRENMENT THEREFORE LIVING SYSTEMS COMPETE SUCCESSFULLY TO GRASP ENERGY AS ORGANISMS DECAY THEY GENERATE WOOD COAL PETROLEUM AS SOURCES OF ENERGY CAPTURED ENERGY BY BIOLOGIC SYSTEMS RELATES TO MORPHOLOGY or SPECIFIC BODY or SHAPES OF ORGANISMS or SPECIES EACH LIVING SYSTEM or ORGANISM HAS SPECIFIC ORDERLY PATHWAYS OF ENERGY FLOW RULED BY ENZYMES biol> SPECIFIC METABOLISM PATHWAYS ARE INTEGRATED or ORGANIZED INTO SELF SUSTAINING SYSTEMS and are QUITE STABLE which is the ESSENCE OF EVERY ORGANISM sug> HOMEOSTASIS ORGANISMS CAN SELF REPAIR and sug> FIX REPLICATE sug> GENESIS ENZYMES ARE ORGANIC SUBSTANCES THAT ACCELERATE CHEMICAL ORGANIC REACTIONS note AN ENZYME IS NEITHER THE SUBSTRATE NOR THE PRODUCT OF SUCH REACTIONS ITS FUNCTION IS TO LOWER THE ENERGY NEEDED FOR CHEMICAL CHAIN REACTIONS sug> METABOLISM med> CATALYSIS CATABOLISM ANABOLISM ARE TERMS to denote THE DEGRADATION OR SYNTHESIS OF ORGANIC PRODUCTS ENZYMES MAY BE CATABOLIC ANABOLIC etc as in HYDROLASE CATALASE sc> SINCE 1956 THERE IS AN INTERNATIONAL NOMENCLATURE COMMITTEE TO STANDARDIZE ENZYMATIC NOMENCLATURE SIX MAIN GROUP ARE ESTABLISHED OXIDOREDUCTASES TRANSFERASES HYDROLASES LYASES ISOMERASES and LIGASES |