(True or False) Increasing the substrate concentration would infinitely increase the activity of an enzyme.Question 5Select one:a.Trueb.False
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(True or False) Increasing the substrate concentration would infinitely increase the activity of an enzyme.Question 5Select one:a.Trueb.False
Solution
b. False
Increasing the substrate concentration can increase the activity of an enzyme to a certain extent. However, this is not infinite. Once all the active sites of the enzyme molecules are occupied by the substrate, the enzyme is said to be saturated. At this point, even if we further increase the substrate concentration, the rate of reaction will not increase. This is because the enzyme can only catalyze a certain amount of reactions at a time, and adding more substrate will not change this.
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