Biology A-Level
Saturation (Vmax)
What Saturation (Vmax) means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Saturation (Vmax)
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Reference: OCR
The point at which all active sites are occupied, so increasing substrate concentration further has no effect and the rate plateaus.
Topics that use Saturation (Vmax)
- Enzymes (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Activation energy and enzyme–substrate complexes
- Cellular metabolism
- Coenzyme
- Cofactor
- Competitive inhibitors
- Digestion and absorption of products
- Effect of missing cofactors on reaction rate
- Effect of substrate concentration on inhibition
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