Question

Linear inhibition is sometimes called as ____________

(a) Complete inhibition

(b) Partial inhibition

(c) Incomplete inhibition

(d) Mixed inhibition

I got this question in an online interview.

My question comes from General Reaction Kinetics for Biological Systems in section Homogenous Reactions of Bioprocess Engineering

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) Complete inhibition

For explanation: Linear inhibition is sometimes called complete inhibition, and the contrasting term partial inhibition is sometimes used for a type of non-linear inhibition in which saturation with inhibitor does not decrease the rate to zero. These latter terms are discouraged because they can be misleading, implying, for example, that the rate may indeed be decreased to zero in ‘complete inhibition’ at non-saturating concentrations of inhibitor.