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Q: What advantages are there to digestion Would it not be simpler for a vertebrate to simply absorb carbohydrates lipids and proteins from its food and to use these molecules without breaking them down?
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How digestion takes place through carbohydrates?

That would be chemical digestion, because carbohydrates are molecules, therefore they are also chemicals.


What smaller molecules result when carbohydrates are chemically changed by digestion?

they disolve :)


When you ingest large molecules such as lipids carbohydrates and proteins they must undergo catabolic reactions whereby enzymes split these molecules?

chemical digestion


Why is digestion good?

Digestion breaks down fat, carbohydrates, and protein into smaller molecules that can be absorbed by your GI tract. Without it, no absorption --> malnutrition --> death


What is the breakdown of large food molecules into smaller molecules colled?

Physical digestion is the term for breaking down large food molecules into small molecules. Mechanical digestion and physical digestion mean the same thing.


What breakdown of complex food molecules into simpler food molecules?

chemical digestion or simply digestion


What is The breakdown of complex food molecules into simpler food molecules?

chemical digestion or simply digestion


What are macromolecules of digestion?

I think your answer is both pepsin, a secreted inactive form of pepsinogen, and mucus.


Which carbohydrates are molecules?

Carbohydrates molecules are made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. If it had only carbon and hydrogen (and no oxygen) it would be called a hydrocarbon.


What is the sugars in carbohydrates?

Sugar molecules are linked in carbohydrates.


Enzymes are carbohydrates molecules?

Enzymes are not carbohydrate molecules. They are protein molecules.


Can be either small molecules or large molecules.?

carbohydrates