Question

THINKING QUESTION

1. Isoamyl acetate, sometimes
popularly called "banana oil" is
one of the compounds responsible
for banana flavor. If an enzyme
called "bananase" makes Isoamy!
acetate from isoamyl alcohol,
could you make a strawberry taste
like a banana by putting the DNA
segment for the enzyme
"bananase" into a strawberry?

Answer 1

The correct answer is - no, you can not make a strawberry taste like a banana by putting the DNA segment for the enzyme "bananase" into a strawberry.

Step-by-step explanation:

Enzymes are highly specific and they catalyze a particular reaction by making enzyme-substrate complex. In this case, Bananase also forms an enzyme-substrate complex with isoamyl alcohol substrate to convert into isoamyl acetate.

in strawberry the particular substrate isoamyl alcohol is not present and the other substrate that are present such as citric acid or malic acid can not bind to enzyme to convert into isoamyl acetate