GES 400 Entrepreneurship Project Questions and Answers on Enzymes Production: Purification, Processing and Packaging – GES 400 is a course set aside to teach you about life after education and how to become an Entrepreneur even before and after education. Many industries cannot do without enzymes as part of the entrepreneurial skills. There is need to find out how these enzymes can be of great importance to the industries.

GES 400 Entrepreneurship Project Questions and Answers on Enzymes Production: Purification, Processing and Packaging

Enzyme is referred to as a catalyst that regulates the rate at which chemical reactions proceed in living organisms without itself being altered in the process.

Examples of Enzymes

• Lipases – a group of enzymes that help digest fats in the gut.
• Amylase – helps change starches into sugars. Amylase is found in saliva.
• Maltase – also found in saliva; breaks the sugar maltose into glucose. Maltose is found in foods such as potatoes, pasta, and beer.
• Trypsin – found in the small intestine, breaks proteins down into amino acids.
• Lactase – also found in the small intestine, breaks lactose, the sugar in milk, into glucose and galactose.
• Acetylcholinesterase – breaks down the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in nerves and muscles.
• Helicase – unravels DNA.
• DNA polymerase – synthesize DNA from deoxyribonucleotides.

Examples of Enzymes used in Industry

• Amylase and protease for baking
• Carbohydrase to convert starch into corn syrup
• Cellulase and amylase to remove waxes, oils, and starch coatings on fabrics and to improve the look of the final product
• Cellulases are used to convert cellulose into glucose to improve biofuel yield
• Dextranase, penicillin amidase, penicillin acylase, and subtilisin are a handful of enzymes used for pharmaceutical products
• Invertase from yeast and lactase in food industry
• Lipase and phospholipase are used in the production of biodiesel by converting free fatty acids to fatty acid methyl esters
• Lipases in fruit juices to break down cell walls for increased yield
• Proteases, lipases, amylases, oxidases, peroxidases, and cellulasesin detergents to help break down stains and chemical bonds
• Rennin for coagulation of milk to make cheese
• Zymase to convert carbohydrates into ethanol in alcoholic beverages

Sources of Enzymes

Enzymes can be sourced from animals, plants and microorganisms.

GES 400 Questions and Answers on Enzymes Production

Find out how one can make money through enzyme purification, processing and packaging

Answer: Once an enzyme is produced, it can sold to the industries that need it. After packaging the enzyme produced, you can take it to the industry that needs it and sell it to them. Through this means, you can make money through the enzyme.

Which industries in Nigeria may likely buy my enzymes if I produce?

Answer: The enzyme produced will determine the industry that will buy it. If I produce enzyme like Amylase, baking and food producing industries can buy it.

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In what form do they need the enzyme?

Answer: The industry will prefer it in powder form

Is there anything I can do as a Biochemist to improve the quality of enzymes used in Nigeria industries?

To improve the quality of enzymes, I will improve the packaging strategy to make it look more attractive to enable all industries value it and purchase it.

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What are the primary and local sources of these enzymes?

Primarily and locally, amylase can be sourced from microorganisms (Fungi and bacteria)

Can I be a distributor of the sources?

It is possible to be a distributor of the sources but for me I will not like to be a distributor of the sources but a distributor of the enzyme after packaging.

Note: You can actually use any enzyme of your choice and answer the questions required.

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