enzyme
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 6
Definition of enzyme
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)A biomolecule that catalyses a biological chemical reaction: either a globular protein with this function or an RNA molecule with this function.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)A biomolecule that catalyses a biological chemical reaction: either a globular protein with this function or an RNA molecule with this function.
- (countable, uncountable)A biomolecule that catalyses a biological chemical reaction: either a globular protein with this function or an RNA molecule with this function.
- (countable, uncountable)Leavened bread, as opposed to azyme.
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Etymology
From German Enzym, coined 1878 by the German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + ζύμη (zúmē, “leaven”). By surface analysis, en- + zyme.
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