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Enzyme Nomenclature

• Enzymes are named by the type of reaction that they catalyse.

• Usually this means adding the suffix –ase to the name of their substrate or reaction
that they catalyze.
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e.g. Lactase hydrolyses lactose into glucose and galactose


DNA polymerase, polymerises deoxynucleotides to form DNA

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