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no, E. coli does not hydrolyze starch; if you grow a culture on a starch plate and incubate it at 37 Celsius for 24 hours and then flood the plate with iodine, you will see no reactiojn (ie: clear area developing around the growth).

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E. coli doesn't produce amylase, which are exoencymes that breakdown starch into individual glucose molecules.

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No there is no zone of clearing to indicate that it does, therefore it does not hydrolyze casein.

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