Digestive enzyme

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Digestive enzyme

An enzyme is an organic catalyst, protienous in nature , which speeds up chemical changes in living cells but are not themselves used up in the process. enzymes accelerate metabolic reactions without changing their process.

Types of enzymes:

1.Intracellular

2. Extracellular

Intracellular: These enzymes function inside the cells of living organism. e.g.cell respiration

Extracellular:These are the enzymes which carry out their function outside the cells. e.g. digestive enzymes.

Classes of enzymes

Hydrolyses: Catalyse the hydrolyse cleavage or breaking up of canon-nitrogen or carbon bonds

Oxido reductase: Catalyses the joining together of two molecules with accompanying of a higher energy bond