What is the name of the class of enzymes that would catalyze each of the following reactions?
c. splitting peptide bonds in proteins

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What is the name of the class of enzymes that would catalyze each of the following reactions?

c. splitting peptide bonds in proteins

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All right. Hello everyone. So this question is asking us to determine which class of enzymes would catalyze the joining of newly synthesized DNA fragments to form a seamless strand. Option. A says like aces, option B says hydrolase, option C says transfer aces and option D says li Ais. So very quickly, let's go ahead and characterize the different types of enzymes that are listed here in the answer choices and talk about two more that aren't listed because there are six total categories of enzymes. So first let's start with li cases and option A. Now the word liga should bring to mind the word L gate, which means essentially to bring two things together and connect them. So I like to think about ligas as gluing enzymes. What they do is essentially take two starting materials and glue them together to create one larger product. Now, a hydrolase on the other hand, is going to catalyze hydrolysis reactions. Hydrolysis is the addition of water across a bond to ultimately break that bond. So hydro lases break down their starting material into smaller products. On the other hand, for option C, we have trans phrases now transfer aces bring to mind the word transfer. And so what they essentially do is move functional groups. So to be a little bit more specific transfer races are going to take one functional group of one compound and move it to a different compound. So it's being transferred to a different recipient. And last but not least for the answer choices we have Li Aes. Now lias says what they essentially do is join two molecules by catalyzing the formation of a double bond. So they're going to catalyze the joining of two larger molecules by forming a double wand. But in addition to these, there are two more classes of enzymes that I want to go ahead and talk about for the sake of complete completeness. Excuse me. Another one is the oxidoreductase. And what they do is catalyze redox reactions. Basically, they catalyze the transfer of electrons from one molecule to another. And finally, we have Isom erases. And what Isom erases do is create an isomer of the starting material. Isomers are two compounds that have the same molecular formula, but a different structure overall. Basically the connections between atoms are different, which results in a different structure even though the molecular formula is the same. All right. So now that we've talked about all the different categories of enzymes, let's go back to our given what enzyme would join newly synthesized DNA fragments to create one larger strand. So what's happening here? Well, you're taking two DNA fragments, putting them together, gluing them together to create a seamless strand. So that's a liga, which means that a is correct and there you have it. So with that being said, thank you so very much for watching and I hope you found this helpful.

What is the name of the class of enzymes that would catalyze each of the following reactions?
c. splitting peptide bonds in proteins

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What is the name of the class of enzymes that would catalyze each of the following reactions?c. splitting peptide bonds in proteins

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What is the name of the class of enzymes that would catalyze each of the following reactions?
c. splitting peptide bonds in proteins