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Enzymes
also known as
are a special type of
therefore, like all proteins,
enzymes are made by a
function is
by binding to the
Enzymes only bind to one particular substrate, whose shape
matches the enzyme’s active site. We call this the
the whole process looks like this
the part of the enzyme that
touches the substrate is called
the
work by lowering the
which means
but enzymes won’t work if
they are
which can happen by changing the