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How does enzyme concentration effect enzyme activity?

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As the enzyme concentration increases the rate of enzyme activity increases up to a level where it becomes constant.
This is because the more the enzymes are available, the more substrates are broken in less time.
It then becomes constant as the substrate acts as a limiting factor, which means that there are not enough substrates to be broken down compared to the number of enzymes.

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