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Enzymes are made from amino acids, so they are proteins
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoLipase is not a hormone. It is not poured in the blood. Lipase is an enzyme.
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∙ 10y agoNot every hormone a lipid or a steroid.There are proteins and amine hormones.
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∙ 11y agono it's an enzyme, enzymes are proteins
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What breaks down fats into glycerol and fatty acids?
Lipase is the enzyme that targets lipid molecules.
What chemical family is lipase?
Lipase is an enzyme that breaks lipid molecules down into a glycerol molecule and fatty acids. It is a protein.
Lipid plus water equals fatty acids plus glycerol?
Lipase
What breaks down fat?
Fats are made up of lipid molecules. Lipase is the enzyme that breaks up the lipid molecules.
How lipid digested?
Another work for Lipid is "Fat". Fat does not dissolve in water-so they are not easily broken down by lipase in the watery content of the gastrointestinal tract.
What are enzymes that speed up the hydrolysis of fats known as?
lipase. a fat is known as a lipid, and all enzymes end in -ase. so lipase assists in breaking dowm lipids.
What are the lipid-digesting enzymes secreted from the pancreas?
amylase, pancreas , maltase, sucrase, lactase,bile hcl,
What is the substrate of gastric lipase?
Lipase cleaves fats into small molecules, glycerol and fatty acids.
Is pancreatic lipase a secretion of the stomach?
Pancreatic lipase (or steapsin) is an enzyme secreted by the pancreas and it acts in the small intestine. Working best at a pH level of 8, it breaks lipid molecules into glycerol and fatty acids.
Name three organs where lipid digestion occurs?
Mouth, stomach, small intestineActually, lipid digestion only occurs in the small intestine. It does not occur anywhere else in the digestive tract.The enzyme which digests lipid is lipase. There are three types of lipase; lingual, gastric, and pancreatic. lingual is found in the mouth, gastric is found in the stomach, and pancreatic is found in the pancreas. While most of this lipid is digested in the small intestine, digestion occurs in other areas as well. The previous answer is correct; digestion of lipids occurs in the mouth, stomach, and small intestine.
What enzyme speeds up the breakdown of food?
It varies for all the food groups. For fat/lipid lipase breaks down,for proteins pepsin breaks down and for carbohydrates amylase.
What enzyme digests lipids?
Lipids are digested by lipases.A lipase is an enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of a lipid (triglyceride) molecule into one molecule of glycerol and three molecules of fatty acid.
