When an enzyme is working as fast as it can because its active site is continually refilled with substrate, the condition is referred to as
A) allosteric modulation.
B) equilibrium.
C) saturation.
D) the Ricardo-Mertz phenomenon.
E) specificity.

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When an enzyme is working as fast as it can because its active site is continually refilled with substrate, the condition is referred to as saturation. At this point, increasing the concentration of substrate does not increase the rate of reaction, as all the enzyme molecules are being used.

When an Enzyme Is Working as Fast as It Can