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Assertion (A) Enzymes have active sites ...

Assertion (A) Enzymes have active sites that hold substrte molecule for a chemical reaction.
Reason (R) Drugs compete with natural substrate by attaching convalency to the active site of enzyme.

A

Assertion and reason both are correct statement but reason does not explain assertion

B

Assertion and reason both are correct and reason explains the assertion

C

Both assertion and reason are wrong statement

D

Assertion is correct statement reason is wrong statement

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The correct Answer is:
D
Correct reason. Drugs compete with natural substrate by attaching by weak bonds (such as ionic bonding, H-bonding, van der Waals interaction, etc.) to the active site of the enzyme.
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