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What do polysaccharides such as starch break down into what are the monomers of carbohydrates?
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What is needed to produce energy from carbohydrates?
To utilize energy from a nutrient, the bonds need to be broken. Polysaccharides cannot be digested until it has been broken down into monomers (monosaccharides). To do this, enzymes need to break the glycosidic linkages between monomers.
What does digestion break carbohydrates into?
Carbohydrates are sugar polymers, digestion breaks the polymer into its monomers, simple sugars like glucose.
Chemical reaction by which starch is split into mono-saccharides?
Hydrolysis. This process uses water to break down molecules such as starch.
What converts insoluble starch to insoluble sugar?
Firstly what the end products of the starch converting to glucose are soluble. Starch is converted to alpha glucose monomers by the addition of water to the glycosidic bonds which join the glucose molecules together. This addition of water is a hydrolysis reaction and seperates the glucose molocules form the starch polymer. The enzyme amalayse is responsible for catalysing the break down of starch into SOLUBLE glucose molecules (monomers).
The enzyme amylase can break glycosidic linkages between glucose monomers only if the monomers are the α form Which of the following could amylase break down?
can break down glycogen and starch (ex: amylopectin or amylose). But not cellulose which is made from beta form glucose. Amylase, present in saliva, breaks down starch into maltose and simple sugars. The maltose is then broken down in the small intestine by maltase into glucose.
If you bite a plain biscuits and leave it in your mouth for some time it will taste sweet explain?
It is because biscuits are source of carbohydrates and the transformation of carbohydrates into sugar begins in the mouth. Amylase is an enzyme in saliva that will break down carbohydrates to sugar. If an individual chews biscuits for a while, it will begin to taste sweet because the enzymes in saliva break down the carbohydrates in It is because biscuits are source of carbohydrates and the transformation of carbohydrates into sugar begins in the mouth. Amylase is an enzyme in saliva that will break down carbohydrates to sugar. If an individual chews biscuits for a while, it will begin to taste sweet because the enzymes in saliva break down the carbohydrates into glucose sugar. to glucose sugar. to glucose sugar.
What does cellulose break down?
Starch and cellulose differ in the glycosidic linkages between their glucose monomers.
How do polysaccharides like starch and glycogen separate into smaller sugar molecules?
They break down in a process called hydrolysis, in which the molecules separate into smaller sugar molecules by the addition of water.
What do monomers do after they break down through hydrolysis?
They become glucose monomers.
What happens to carbohydrates as they pass through the the digestive system?
in the mouth, the saliva's enzyme break down the starch to glucose (carb to sugar)
What are water insoluble carbohydrates?
Carbohydrates which do dissolve in water are insoluble carbs. Examples of insoluble carbohydrates are fiber in food and cellulose in plant. Carbohydrates are made from a chain of many monosaccharides like glucose, fructose, lactose etc. They are held together by bonds. If these bonds can be broken by dissolving in water, the carb is called soluble. Our body uses enzymes to break these bonds. For example starch is a chain of several glucose molucules hed together by alpha glucoside bonds. Alpha glucosidase is the enzyme used by the body to break these bonds and convert starch into individual glucose molecules. Insoluble fiber is made of chains of monosaccharides held together by beta glucoside bonds. Our body does not have the enzyme (thankfully! why?) to break these bonds. Therefore insoluble fiber, which is also a carbohydrate, is not itself digested by the body but does great help in increasing the bulk size of the stool and in sending some lipids out of the body in the form of bile.
What are the carbohydrates converted to in the digestive system?
carb break down into sugars by the help of enzymes .
