In article <46883e$8a7 at newsbf02.news.aol.com>, brucerat at aol.com says...
>Using a simple photometer to detect digestion of iodine-stained arrowroot
>starch by salivary amylase, I have gotten a graph that is FAIRLY closely
>modeled by the Michaelis-Menten equation. But it deviates significantly.
> Do you have any suggestions as to why?
Bruce,
you have to give us a little more information. It can deviate from a M-M
curve for various reasons. How does it deviate? Does it look like a sgmoid?
Does it look like a hyperbola but isn't one?
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