- Ase - wikipedia - Ase This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2009 ) Look up - ase in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The suffix - ase is used in biochemistry to form names of enzymes. The most common way to name enzymes is to add this suffix onto the end of the substrate, e.g. an enzyme that breaks down peroxides may be called peroxidase ; the enzyme that produces telomeres is called telomerase. Sometimes enzymes are named for the function they perform, rather than substrate, e.g. the enzyme that polymerizes ( assembles ) DNA into strands is called polymerase ; see also reverse transcriptase. The commonly used - ase suffix for naming enzymes was derived from the name diastase. See also Amylase DNA polymerase Organic chemistry affixes Carbon - based - ane ( alkane ) - ene ( alkene ) - ine ( unsaturated hydrocarbon ) - yne ( alkyne ) alk - ( saturated hydrocarbon ) ar - ( aromatic ) cyclo - ( cyclic ) Oxygen - based - al ( aldehyde ) - oate ( ester ) - oic acid ( carboxylic acid ) - ol ( alcohol ) - one ( ketone ) - ose ( sugar ) Nitrogen - based - ine ( alkaloid ) aza - ( N replaces C ) Sulfur - based thio - ( S replaces O ) Counting axial atoms meth - ( 1 ) eth - ( 2 ) prop - ( 3 ) but - ( 4 ) ( and the rest are ordinary Greek / Latin prefixes ) Other - ase ( enzyme ) - yl ( radical ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=-ase&oldid=741836454 '' Categories : Chemistry suffixes Biological nomenclature Greek suffixes Hidden categories : Articles lacking sources from August 2009 All articles lacking sources Talk About Wikipedia 日本 語 Edit links This page was last edited on 29 September 2016, at 23 : 44. About Wikipedia

Question: organic molecules that end in the suffix ase
Answer: enzymes