... (ordissociation of C). In the second phase, both variablesevolve at similar rates towards their equilibrium values,corresponding to the consumption of substrate by the enzyme. The duration of the ... significantly, the former better approx-imates a SIM than the latter, as demonstrated by the trajectories approaching it. When the enzyme concen-tration exceeds that of the substrate, the two manifoldsdiffer ... initialperiod, the evolution of the system is described by the part of the trajectory corresponding to the second, slowphase.A related feature of the model given by Eqns (2,3)(and one of central...