Question

Explain types of enzymes used in biotechnology?

Answer 1

No	Type of enzyme	Examples	Functions
i.	Lysing enzyme	Lysozyme	Digesting bacterial cell walls
ii.	Cleaving enzymes (Molecular scissors)	Restriction endonucleases	An enzyme that cleaves a DNA duplex molecule at a particular base sequence, usually within or near a palindromic sequence
iii.	Synthesizing enzymes	Reverse transcriptase; DNA polymerase	Reverse transcriptase: A viral enzyme that is capable of converting their RNA genome into a DNA copy DNA polymerase: It synthesizes DNA strand only in the 5′- to-3′ direction