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HP and JZ wrote: "The speed and specificity of enzymes is ______..."
Perhaps they are; I'm willing to believe that between the two of
you, the truth is somewhere in there; about the speed and specificity of
enzymes... But while this may help in applied sciences (like pharmacology) the
questions that comes to my mind are things like; Why do enzymes exist? In
natural systems, they're made by living organisms, are they not? These are
substances which are capable of breaking apart molecules and rearranging atoms
with other atoms into new kinds of molecules-- in a particular way--
all without being changed, themselves, if memory serves... Enzymes
are extraordinarily useful in living organisms and there are myriad
varieties of them because they are quite specific in which molecules each
type of enzyme can break apart and rearrange. The creation of
enzymes is specified by the organization of the system as a whole. So,
it would be the organizational information about enzymes that I would want to
delve into... if I were going into a research career on this.
Judith
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