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An enzyme is a chemical substance a plant or animal makes inside itself. It helps chemical changes happen there — breaking food into smaller bits, building the body’s parts, getting energy out — so those changes do not take forever. Your spit already has an enzyme that starts work on food in your mouth.
Though actually, you will also meet the word on soap, drinks, and health products in Taiwan. Sometimes the enzymes are doing real work, like lifting stains in cooler water. Sometimes a packet just likes a science glow. In class, keep the living-helper meaning first. Enzymes are not little animals; they are chemicals the living body makes. Heat and strong acid can stop them working, which is why boiling food changes what they can still do.
From the word’s history
From German Enzym, coined 1878 by Wilhelm Kühne from Greek en 'in' + zymē 'leaven'.
借自德文 Enzym，1878 年用希臘文「在」加「酵母」造出。
組成From German Enzym, coined in 1878 by the German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne from Ancient Greek en (in) + zúmē (leaven, the stuff that makes bread rise). By the look of the English word, en- + zyme.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
enzymenoun/ˈɛn.zaɪm/
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biochemistrybiologychemistryA 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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biochemistrybiologychemistryA 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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ChristianityLeavened bread, as opposed to azyme.
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