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Are enzymes different than hormones and proteins?
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- GaryLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Enzymes are catalysts made of protein, or, in some cases, RNA. They are usually very complicated, made up of at least a few dozen to a few hundred amino acids. They make reactions go faster.
Hormones are chemical messengers. Many hormones are relatively simple compounds of various types, but some are big complex proteins, like insulin. Hormones bind to receptors made of protein. You can think of a message being delivered when a hormone binds to its receptor.
Everything you can see on a living thing, including yourself, is either made of protein or produced by a protein. These are usually big, complicated molecules, made up of chains of amino acids, like beads on a tangled up necklace. They serve many, many purposes in living things, for example, there are proteins that contract, making muscles work. There are proteins that help DNA to copy itself. Hair and fingernails are made mostly of a protein called keratin. As I said before, most enzymes, and some hormones, are made of protein.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
YES
enzymes speed up a chemical reaction to break things down or have something happen faster.
Hormones allow things to be secreted and have bodily functions work properly
Proteins are organic compounds that make up body tissues like hair and muscles. Proteins sometimes make up enzymes though.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Some hormones are proteins, others (steroid hormones) are classified as lipids. "Hormone" means it's a chemical messenger, but doesn't tell you a whole lot about its chemical structure. Did you mean phagocyte? That's a kind of white blood cell which eats pathogens. ('phago' and 'phage' come from a word that means 'eating'.)