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Enzymes are known as biochemical catalysis. Write the two important characteristics of enzyme catalysis.

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Enzymes are highly specific in nature, i.e., one enzyme cannot catalyse more than one reaction.
Highly active at optimum temperature (298-310K) and optimum pH (between 5 and 7).
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