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It is a fact that enzymes are highly specific and will only catalyze one or a...

It is a fact that enzymes are highly specific and will only catalyze one or a few reactions. Can you think of a benefit that is derived from such specificity? (i.e., What would happen if most biochemical reactions were catalyzed by the same enzyme?)

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If all the biochemical reactions are catalyzed by the same enzyme, then the chances of fatality due to genetic mutation would be hundred percent.

It is because if only one enzyme would have been there and if it gets mutated then there would be an absolute stop to all the metabolic activities and therefore the cell would die at that time only. Zygote carrying such a mutated enzyme would not survive at all.

On the other hand, which is the present situation, there are many enzymes. If there is a mutation in one enzyme, only that metabolic pathway is affected addressed all the Pathways work normally. In this way, if a person gets a genetic disease, he still survives and shows other metabolic Pathways as a normal person.

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