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12 years ago
Like amylase, trypsin, lipase and others....
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12 years ago
because they speed up the process of hydrolysis (when water breaks down a molecule)


the breaking down of that molecule accounts for the digestion aspect
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Macromolecule polymers are made by dehydration reactions which release a water molecule as the monomers are linked.  Therefore, digestion on the molecular level requires adding a water molecule in order to break the polymer bond --- called hydrolysis.  Any enzyme that aids this very general process would be called a hydrolytic enzyme.
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