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Q: Salivary amylase is an enzyme found in the human mouth as the first step of carbohydrate digestion. Salivary amylase is classified as which biological compound?
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What is the Carbohydrate Digestion Polymer in the Oral Cavity?

Salivary Amylase.


What is the enzyme produced by the salivary glands that initiates carbohydrate digestion in the mouth?

The Oral Cavity has limited digestion of carbohydrates and lipids (amylase and lipase).


Secretions of salivary glands begin the digestion of?

carbohydratesstarch


What is the name of biological catalysts which bring chemical digestion in food?

salivary amylase


Where does carbohydrate digestion begin and how does this digestion occur?

Carbohydrate digestion starts with the mastication (chewing of the mouth). There, the salivary amylase begins to break down the carbs into monosaccharides. Protein digestion begins in the stomach. Pepsin comes into play here and various enzyme proteases do as well


What digestive juice is made by glands in the mouth?

Salivary amylase, which starts the breakdown of carbohydrates Saliva, in your mouth helps with the grinding and digestion of carbohydrate food.


Does the salivary glands produce juices in the mouth?

Yes. It is called saliva and contains watery juice and mucus plus enzymes that begin carbohydrate digestion and a weak antibiotic.


What type of digestion is done by salivary glands?

salivary glands donot digest salivary amylase converts starch to glucose


Where does digestion begin at?

Digestion begins in your mouth. Starch is digested (by salivary amylase) into maltose.


What is the type of digestion the salivary glands have chemical physical both or neither?

Chemical digestion


The secretions of the salivary glands begin the digestion of what?

starches


What are the functions of the chemical digestion in animals?

Chemical digestion begins in the mouth with the secretion of saliva from three pairs of salivary glands. Saliva contains the digestive enzyme salivary amylase.