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The "lock and key" model of enzyme action illustrates that a particular enzyme molecule:

Options

  1. AMay be destroyed and resynthesised several times
  2. BInteracts with a specific type of substrate molecule
  3. CReacts at identical rates under all conditions
  4. DForms a permanent enzyme-substrate complex

Correct answer

B. Interacts with a specific type of substrate molecule

Step-by-step solution

Lock and key theory was proposed by Emil Fischer it states that each enzyme molecule has a specific active site to which only a specific substrate can fit and bind forming ES complex. It thus explains that each enzyme molecule interacts with a specific type of substrate only.

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