Answer the following question given this paragraph: 

Enzymes are biochemical catalysts, which means that they speed up the rate of a specific chemical reaction. A process that might take weeks in the absence of an enzyme can occur in milliseconds if the proper enzyme is present. A generic enzyme-catalyzed reaction could be represented as follows:.


Q: Enzymes speed up the rate of a specific chemical reaction and is therefore known as what?

 Choices:

- genetic catalysts

- characteristic catalysts

- protein catalysts

- biochemical catalysts

A:
biochemical catalysts
