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Harun Yahya

catalase is a fast-working enzyme, and so even a small amount of it is

sufficient to eliminate the hydrogen peroxide.
In addition, enzymes are also employed intensively in processing
sugar, animal feed, and fruit juice and manufacturing paper and
leather. For example, various problems arising during the production
of fruit juices, particularly apple juice, can be resolved with the help of
enzymes. Apple juice contains huge quantities of starch, and is cloudy
in its fresh-pressed state. If transparent apple juice is desired, that
starch has to be broken down—which is effected by introducing starch-
dissolving enzymes.
But how are enzymes obtained from the natural world? Allah has
created a great means of doing so: micro-organisms. Any single micro-
organism possesses more than 1,000 different kinds of enzymes—a
great blessing placed at mankind's industrial disposal.
Scientists collect and study different micro-organisms

from different parts of the world in order to obtain differ-
ent kinds of enzymes. This research continues under
the microscope until they find an enzyme that
performs the desired task. Then the or-
ganism that produces that enzyme is
altered genetically so that it
will produce larger
quantities of the

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