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forces them to react-combine (chemically) at low temperatures. Thus they are the miracle workers forcing chemical changes that a chemist can only do at high temperatures. For instance, they oxidize sugar to give up energy at body-temperature as they would do only if heated. They may break molecules down or build them up to make proteins, carbohydrates or fats. Protein: Complex organic substances abundant, widely distributed, and essential for living organisms. They are macromolecules (very large and complicated) composed of a sequence of hundreds or thousands of amino acid units.
Enzymes are proteins but all proteins are not enzymes. There are at least 1,00,000 varieties of proteins in human body. Two types of proteins are : (1) functional, (2) structural. Amino Acid : A simple organic molecule (containing nitrogen) able to act both as an acid and a base and so to join with others to make the long chains of proteins. The same 20 amino acids occur in all animals as well as plants. Mitochondria : Power-bouse of the cells found in almost all cells for generating energy;
(In Genetics) Transcription : The process by which the information in a section of the DNA of a chromosome is copied into a different nucleotide, messenger RNA, which is carried from the nucleus to the cytoplasm and there translated to make a protein. Translation : The process by which the information carried from the nucleus by messenger RNA is made to produce a particular protein by enzymes associated with special granules - the ribosomes.
C. Terms Related with Computer and Program Computer: An artificial device for processing information. In a digital computer, a code is used to represent the information in such a form that
