Question

What are enzymes and classification of enzymes in chemistry?

Answer 1

Answer:

Enzymes are biocatalysts.

An enzyme may be defined as "a protein that enhances the rate of biochemical reactions but does not affect the nature of final product."

Answer 2

Answer:

Enzymes are biological catalyst for various biochemical reactions in living organisms e.g the enzyme helps in digestion of food, absorption of certain molecules producing energy. All enzyme are proteins. These enzymes are very specific for a particular substrate in a reaction. They are named from the class compound in a reaction.

Classification

1. oxidereduates
2. transferases
3. hydrolases
4. lyases
5. isomerases
6. ligases