Chemistry for Today: General Organic and Biochemistry
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Chapter 20, Problem 20.26E
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An enzyme international unit is to be defined and the reason as to why the international unit is a useful method for expressing enzyme activity in medical diagnoses is to be described.
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Enzyme international unit is the unit to measure an enzyme activity. It is denoted by
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