Question

What is an enzyme

Answer 1

What is an enzyme?

Answer: Enzymes are the catalysts involved in biological chemical reactions. They are the “gnomes” inside each one of us that take molecules like nucleotides and align them together to create DNA, or amino acids to make proteins, to name two of thousands of such functions.

They are so important for life that scientists weren’t satisfied with calling them catalysts, and had to invent the fancy new name “enzyme” instead.

Whay are they important?

The reason enzymes are important to life is because cellular energy is a precious resource. To see how enzymes help preserve this resource, and how such preservation matters to living things, let’s return again to our magnet thought experiment.