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Enzymes, the proteins with specific biochemical roles
Enzymes are, in nature, proteins that perform some specific biochemical reactions. The enzyme's job is to provide a site for a biochemical reaction and lower the time and energy it takes for that biochemical reaction to take place. Hundreds of chemical reactions occur in cells every second, most requiring enzymes.
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Enzymes have specific sites where only particular substrates can fit into their active sites. Nearly all biochemical reactions require a specific enzyme. All bodily functions, including the breakdown and absorption of food in the stomach and small intestine, the transformation of nutrients into substances a cell can use, and the building of all macromolecules and proteins, require enzymes.
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