Without enzyme, biological reaction essential to life takes 2.3 billion years
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 06:28
in Biology & Nature
All biological reactions within human cells depend on enzymes. Their power as catalysts enables biological reactions to occur usually in milliseconds. But how slowly would these reactions proceed spontaneously, in the absence of enzymes - minutes, hours, days? And why even pose the question?
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