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No. Amylase digests/uses starch.
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Is salivary amylase able to digest cellulose?
Salivary amylase is not able to digest cellulose. Amylase has the ability to digest starch but cellulose is a fibre which in indigestible.
What is the substrate for pancreatic amylase?
The substrate for pancreatic amylase is starch. It is an enzyme, secreted in the pancreas, that catalyzes the hydrolysis of starch into sugars.
Can amylase digest cellulose?
no
Does amalyse use cellulose as a substrate?
Amalyze breaks down starch not celluose.
What are the reactants of amylase?
The Substrate for amylase are starch (amylose and Amylopectin), glycogen, and various Oligosaccharides.
What substrate does salivary amylase act on?
Starch
What substance is a substrate of amylase?
carbohydrates (starches)
What is the substrate salivary amylase?
Starch is the substrate. Salivary amylase (like all amylases) is an enzyme that breaks down bonds between glucose residues in starch molecules. More specifically, the substrate for an amylase is an α-1,4-glycosidic bond. The products are sugars such as maltose and, in smaller amounts, glucose and maltotriose.
In an amylase experiment what is the substrate and the product?
The substrates of carbohydrase are carbohydrates. This gets further broken down into simple sugars. Hope this helps. :)
What is the name of the substrate of amylase?
'''The''' substrate of amylase is in your head. Once you think about it hard, you will know. Just remember, '''I LOVE YOU.''' God bless God, you and Lady Gaga. Sincerly, Abeid :)
How starch and cellulose treated to allow them to be used by the yeast?
Starch-you use an enzyme e.g. amylase to convert the starch to sugar ,add an enzyme which breaks the starch or cellulose into sugars. The yeast will then ferment the sugars. Not sure about cellulose...
What substrate does amylase have an affinity for?
Amylase breaks starch (a polysaccharide - complex carbohydrate) down into maltose (a disaccharide - simpler sugar).
