The Advantages of using Enzymes in Biotechnology Biotechnology is the use of biological processes to exploit and manipulate living organisms and biological systems to develop or manufacture a product that is a solution to a problem. An enzyme is a protein, which is able to catalyse biochemical reactions. Reactions need to exceed their activation energy in order to take place. Enzymes reduce the need for activation energy and so allow reactions to take place more …
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…allows manufacturers to supply enzymes which otherwise could not be produced in large enough quantities, giving the consumer access to a wider variety of products. As you can see, using enzymes in biotechnology has many benefits whether it is medical, economic or just convenience in our everyday lives. Biotechnology is a general category that has applications in many fields, and provided that it is used correctly will have an increasingly positive effect on our society.