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Within the micro-environment, the same bulk concentration may give two different stable concentrations.

(a) True

(b) False

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Question is taken from Kinetics of Immobilized Enzymes topic in division Immobilized Enzymes Preparation and Kinetics of Enzyme Technology

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Right answer is (a) True

Easy explanation: Within the micro-environment, the same bulk concentration may give two different stable concentrations which are follows:

A low concentration which gives faster rate of reaction, with no substrate inhibition and equally fast rate of inward diffusion sue to steep concentration gradient.

A high concentration which gives slower rate of reaction due to substrate inhibition and equally slow rate of inward diffusion due to concentration gradient going downward.

There is a possibility of an existence of a third intermediate concentration depicting an unstable state which is not naturally established and is of no practical consequence.

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