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http://www.brainpop.com/health/bodysystems/bodychemistry/ This is a link to a brain pop video that describes how proteins, carbohydrates and enzymes work in your body. I used this video to learn how the proteins and enzymes work in the body so I can learn how proteins can work AS enzymes in the body. (:

http://www.rawbc.org/articles/enzymes_protein.html This was also a very helpful website which told me about how an enzyme can be a protein, and how a protein can be an enzyme. All enzymes are proteins made up of amino acids. However, proteins are only enzymes if they can catalyze (speed up) a biochemical reaction.

Enzymes in a cell act as catalysts for chemical reactions. The reactions allow a the cell to create and take apart things that they need. Thats how a cell grows and reproduces. This is the basic function of a cell where a maltose molecule floats near the maltose enzymes. Then the maltose enzyme captures the maltose molecule. When the maltose is captured it starts a chemical reaction that then releases 2 glucose molecules- a chemical reaction(: