**Question:**Why would it be difficult to evolve an enzyme with high catalytic activity but low specificity?**Options:**- ○ Such an enzyme would need to be able to generate a single product from several different substrates.- ○ Such an enzyme would need to be able to catalyze several types of reactions, depending on which substrate it binds.- ○ Such an enzyme would need to be able to bind substrates without changing the conformation of the enzyme or the substrate.- ○ Such an enzyme would need to be able to bind substrates with substantial parts of the substrate not in close contact with the enzyme. Most enzymes are quite specific, catalyzing a particular reaction on a set of substrates that are structurally quite similar to one another.**Why are highly specific enzymes advantageous from a biological perspective?**- They allow catalyzed reactions to produce potentially useful by-products.- They allow for the sharing of enzymes by multiple metabolic pathways.- They allow an inhibitor to simultaneously inhibit multiple steps in a metabolic pathway.- They allow control of which reactions occur at appreciable rates.**Why are most enzymes highly specific from a chemical perspective?**- Enzymes generally require a tight fit between enzyme and substrate.- Interactions between the enzyme and the substrate stabilize the substrate.- The active sites of enzymes are always identical in shape to the substrates they bind.- The formation of weak interactions between the enzyme and the substrate requires energy.

Specificity is a property of an enzyme which estimates the number of different chemical species…

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