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Why are enzymes specific, and why can not each one speed up many different reactions?

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Each enzyme is specific to a chemical reaction it will affect because each enzyme contains an active site which is an area of an enzyme that has specific shape and size and differs from one enzyme to the another. The active site is shaped in a way that only a specific substrate can fit into the active site of an enzyme.

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