Enzyme Technology - Enzymes are proteins that catalyze the chemical reactions, biosynthetic and degradative, occurring in living cells. Some RNA molecules also have catalytic action; these are called ribozyme.

Enzymes increase, by a factor of 103 - 1016, the rates of such reactions that would naturally occur, at a very slow rate, but, they can not induce a reaction that would not happen normally. The use of purified enzymes for generating a useful product or service constitutes enzyme technology.