A biologist working in a lab adds a compound to a solution that contains an enzyme and substrate. This particular compound binds reversibly to the enzyme at the active site. Once the compound is bound to the enzyme, the catalysis of substrate to product stops. Which of the statements is true of the compound?

The effects of the compound is can be overcome by adding more substrate.

Explanation:

The compound is most likely to be an inhibitor since when it is added to the solution that contains an enzyme and a substrate it stops the catalysis of substrate to product.

Since it binds to the active site of the enzyme it is a competitive inhibitor.

The inhibitor cannot be an allosteric inhibitor because allosteric inhibitors bind permanently to the active site of the enzyme changing the conformation of the protein and the effect is irreversible. However, the compound binds reversibly to the active site of the enzyme.

The effects of the compound can be overcome by adding more substrate

small, big, or no change could occur in the phenotype. it could cause something as simple as a cats ears to curl backwards or something as frighting as death. it could also occur in the protien-coding area and have an effect on that but no effect on the amino acids. what has to occur is a changing in the hox gene or the control gene.