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Enzymes are organic catalysts in organisms. Why are they so important for sustaining life?
Solution
Answer : All biological macromolecules are much less thermodynamically stable than their
monomeric subunits, yet
they are kinetically stable: their uncatalyzed breakdown occurs so slowly (over years rather than
seconds) that, on a time scale that matters for the organism, these molecules are stable. Virtually
every chemical reaction in a cell occurs at a significant rate only because of the presence of
enzymes—biocatalysts that, like all other catalysts, greatly enhance the rate of specific chemical
reactions without being consumed in the process. The thousands of enzyme-catalyzed chemical
reactions in cells are functionally organized into many sequences of consecutive reactions, called
pathways, in which the product of one reaction becomes the reactant in the next.The overall
network of enzyme-catalyzed pathways constitutes cellular metabolism. So enzymes are the most
important molecules which carries out every reaction in cells required for their growth,
development etc.,

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Enzymes are organic catalysts in organisms. Why are they so importan.pdf

  • 1. Enzymes are organic catalysts in organisms. Why are they so important for sustaining life? Solution Answer : All biological macromolecules are much less thermodynamically stable than their monomeric subunits, yet they are kinetically stable: their uncatalyzed breakdown occurs so slowly (over years rather than seconds) that, on a time scale that matters for the organism, these molecules are stable. Virtually every chemical reaction in a cell occurs at a significant rate only because of the presence of enzymes—biocatalysts that, like all other catalysts, greatly enhance the rate of specific chemical reactions without being consumed in the process. The thousands of enzyme-catalyzed chemical reactions in cells are functionally organized into many sequences of consecutive reactions, called pathways, in which the product of one reaction becomes the reactant in the next.The overall network of enzyme-catalyzed pathways constitutes cellular metabolism. So enzymes are the most important molecules which carries out every reaction in cells required for their growth, development etc.,