Enzymes are needed to do many different jobs: breaking down food to get energy; building small molecules up into larger ones; rearranging molecules; getting rid of waste products.
For every job which has to be done in life there is one kind of enzyme. The one shown here can split a food molecule in two. But the enzyme must not split just any molecule. If it did it might attack the living thing it belonged to and kill it

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