Is the term $"substrate"$ different from $"reactant"$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-10T20:47:19

Probably not, and you can treat the terms equivalently.

Formally, the substrate is the material on which the enzyme (or catalyst) acts; it's just another fancy term for the reactant(s).

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