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What chemicals or enzymes help break down food in the oesophagus?
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∙ 14y ago
Amylase is a digestive enzyme in your mouth and is the first of many that contribute to digestion.
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What is the function of proteolytic enzymes and what do they make?
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What are the special chemicals that break down food into liquid form in the stomach?
gastric acids enzymes
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Enzymes break down the chemicals in foods. Particular the carbohydrates into smaller units that can be used by the cells in the body.
How a mold growing on an orange obtains its food.?
As the fungal hyphae expand into the orange, they produce enzymes. These enzymes break down different chemicals in the orange. The degraded chemicals are then absorbed by the hyphae to be used as food.
What are chemicals found in the digestive process called?
They are called digestive enzymes. There are many that are used in the process, beginning in the mouth with enzymes that begin the break down of starches.
What does mitochondria use to break down carbohydrates?
Enzymes are used to break them down. There are many enzymes
Substance used to break food down?
Enzymes are substances that break down food.
What enzymes are required for digestion?
Many sorts of enzymes at different parts of the system. In the mouth enzymes to break down sugars, in the stomach enzymes to break down proteins and in the small intestine enzymes to break down fats and sugars.
The chemicals present in the plants that break down the insects are most likely?
1.fats 2.hormones 3. enzymes 4.carbohydrates
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What enzymes break down gelatin?
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