an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia; "ADA deficiency can lead to one fo…
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an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate
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an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia; "ADA deficiency can lead to one fo…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.any of a group of proteins found in saliva and pancreatic juice and parts of plants; help convert starch to sugar
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.enzyme produced by certain bacteria that inactivates penicillin and results in resistance to that antibiotic
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.enzyme found in most plant and animal cells that functions as an oxidative catalyst; decomposes hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine (into choline and acetic acid)
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.an enzyme that induces coagulation
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of collagen and gelatin
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.any of several enzymes that convert a compound into smaller, biologically-active compounds.; "There are four different C5 convertases…
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.an enzyme that removes the iodine radical
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.any of the enzymes that hydrolize the carboxyl group
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.a pancreatic enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of elastin
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.enzyme in the intestinal juice that converts inactive trypsinogen into active trypsin
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.an enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots
Used in the same subject area: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Molecular biology.enzyme that acts as a catalyst in converting histidine to histamine
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Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: enzyme, occurs, gastric, juice, causes.the part of an enzyme or antibody where the chemical reaction occurs
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: enzyme, occurs, gastric, juice, causes.A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: enzyme, occurs, gastric, juice, causes.A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: enzyme, occurs, gastric, juice, causes.a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); bur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: enzyme, occurs, gastric, juice, causes.Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: enzyme, occurs, gastric, juice, causes.The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: enzyme, occurs, gastric, juice, causes.a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: enzyme, occurs, gastric, juice, causes.The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: enzyme, occurs, gastric, juice, causes.To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: enzyme, occurs, gastric, juice, causes.An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: enzyme, occurs, gastric, juice, causes.A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the unio…
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