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6 years ago
When explaining how carbon dioxide combines with water to form carbonic acid as part of acid-base lecture, the faculty instructor emphasized that which enzyme is needed as a catalyst for this reaction?
 
  A)
  Carbonic anhydrase
  B)
  Phenylalanie hdroxylase
  C)
  Hydrolases
  D)
  Trypsin
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Although CO2 is a gas and not an acid, a small percentage of the gas combines with water to form H2CO3. The reaction that generates H2CO3 from CO2 and water is catalyzed by an enzyme called carbonic anhydrase.
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