13. How does the substrate
concentration affect the speed
of enzymatic reactions?

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Initially as substrate
increases, the speed of the reaction
; this happens because free
activation centers of the enzyme to
free substrates.Once all
centers of the available enzymes
become bound to their substrates new
increments of the substrate
will have no effect on the
speed of the reaction.