Question

If you study the effect of substrate concentration on an enzymatic reaction, what kind of curve would you obtain?

Answer 1

The rate of chemical reaction increases as there is an increase in substrate concentration. Enzymes become saturated when the substrate concentration is high. If we plot a graph with substrate concentration on X-axis and corresponds velocity in Y-axis. It is observed that as there is an increase in the concentration of the substrate, there is a corresponding increase in the reaction. It forms an arc-shaped curve.