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carbohydrates
June Douglas
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∙ 11y agoStarches are glucose molecules (sugar) joined together
The chemical formula for glucose is C6H12O6
Starch is basically the plant equivalent of fat:
When they create extra food, they store it as starch
that's why if you suck on a (cooked) potato for a long time it'll taste sweet, because your saliva is breaking up the starch compounds
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∙ 12y agoCarbohydrates.
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Are oganic compounds made of sugars or starches?
Sugars and starch are organic compounds. But all organic compounds are not made of sugars and starch.
How does starch affects amylase?
Amylase breaks starch down into sugars.
Sugars are stored as this?
When plants store sugar they store it as food
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...
Does iodine test for sugars?
it tests for starch
What does the breakdown of protein and starch produce?
Sugars.
Is starch part of the total sugars?
Yes.
What initial product does hydrolysis of starch produce?
Hydrolysis of starch produces simple sugars. This simple sugars then pass through various mechanism to yield ATP molecules. Starch is a storage polysaccride.
Which is not a carbohydrate between oil sugar and starch?
Oil is a form of fat or lipid. (Simple) sugars are carbohydrates complex sugars or starch is also a catrbohydrate.
What are these glucose polymers called?
Starch
What enzyme breaks down starch into sugars which are than broken down by the other three enzymes?
starch can be broken down into simple sugars by the enzyme amylase
What are two main groups of carbohydrate?
The two main groups of carbohydrates are starch and sugars.
