Question: Enzymes are made up of _______.
Options:
Carbohydrates
Nucleic acids
Amino acids
Fat
🔑Key Points:
-Enzymes are made of chains of amino acids chemically bonded to one another.
-These bonds give the enzyme a unique structure, which determines its function.
-Enzymes help in processes like digestion, blood clotting, and hormone production.
-They either catalyze or speed up chemical reactions that take place in the bodies of living things.
✏️Types of enzymes in the human body:
-Lactase
-Pectinase.
-Bromelain
-Papain
-Catalase
🔴Additional Information:
-Carbohydrates are organic compounds in which the ratio of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen is 1: 2: 1.
-Carbohydrate works as fuel during the process of respiration, glucose break into CO2 and H2O with the release of energy.
-One gram of glucose gives 4.2 kilocalories energy.
-Nucleic acids are polymers of nucleosides and nucleotides and contain pentose sugar.
-Fat is an ester of glycerol and fatty acid.
-Normally fat remains as solid at 20°C temperature, but if it is in liquid form at this temperature, this is called oil.
-9.3 kilocalorie energy is liberated from 1 gram fat.