The Fundamentals of Bacteriology

Note 16 — Chapter XII · PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES (Continued).

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It will be noted that the names of enzymes (except some of those first discovered) terminate in ase which is usually added to the stem of the name of the substance acted on, though sometimes to a word which indicates the substance formed by the action, as lactacidase, alcoholase. ↩

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