What is the name of the class of enzymes that would catalyze each of the following reactions?
a. addition of water to a double bond

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

a. addition of water to a double bond

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All right. Hi everyone. So this question is asking us to determine the name of the class of enzymes responsible for the rearrangement of atoms within a molecule. Option A says oxy or reductase. Option B says hydrolase, option C says transfer AIS and option D says isomer ais. So very quickly, let's just go ahead and recall the different classifications of enzymes based on their function. So there are six total categories but we only have four different answer choices regardless though let's talk about all six of them. First up here we have oxy or reduc cases that are responsible for redox reactions. In other words, oxidation or reduction reactions, put simply these enzymes are catalyzing the transfer of electrons from one molecule to the other. On the other hand, we have hydrolysis. Now, hydro laces catalyze hydrolysis reactions. This means that they facilitate the cleavage of a bond by using water. This leaves us now with options C and D that's transfer races and isomer isomer. Now, these two types of enzymes are very easy to confuse with one another. So before we talk about these two specifically, let's talk about the other remaining classes of enzymes that were not listed here as answer choices. Those are lie aces and lie gazes, they sound similar but they do different things right? Starting off with a lie. Ace lias refer to enzymes that are going to join specific molecules or groups together by a double bond. So lias is create double bonds that are going to combine two molecules or groups together. Lie guesses. Meanwhile, are responsible for ligating or joining together two larger molecules. So what they do is that they establish a new chemical bond between two large molecules to bring them together. So now what's the difference between a transferase and an isomerase? First recall that isomers refer to two compounds that have the same chemical formula but different connections between atoms. So isom erases what they do is they create an isomer of the starting material, they're not adding or removing anything from the starting material. Instead, they are rearranging the atoms that are already present. On the other hand, what a transferase does is it transfers one group to a different compound. So just to go ahead and rephrase that a transferase is going to take one group from one molecule and move it to a different molecule. And now that we've talked about the differences between all six, let's go back to the statement given in the question, what enzyme is responsible for rearranging atoms within a molecule. Now, the important part was that nothing was being removed or added from the molecule rather atoms that were already present are being rearranged, that's creating an isomer. And that reaction is catalyzed by isomer ases. This means that option D as in dog is the correct answer 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?
a. addition of water to a double bond

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Hydrolases

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What is the name of the class of enzymes that would catalyze each of the following reactions?a. addition of water to a double bond

Verified video answer for a similar problem:

Key Concepts

Hydrolases

Enzyme Catalysis

Substrate Specificity

What is the name of the class of enzymes that would catalyze each of the following reactions?
a. addition of water to a double bond