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The hydrochloric acid in your digestive system activates an enzyme called pepsin that helps break down your food for digestion.
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What is the job amylase?
it helps to break down carbohydrates in our food.
What type of macromolecule helps a cell break down food?
carbohydrates
What do you use managanese ore for?
It helps your body break down fats, carbohydrates, and proteins
Does sugar break down to carbohydrates?
Sugars are carbohydrates. Table surgar is a specific type of carbohydrate that will break down into simpliar carbohydrates
What do enzymes do in saliva?
The only enzymes I am aware of in saliva are Amylase enzymes. These enzymes break down Carbohydrates. Hope this helps!
What does the stomach do to the food?
The stomach mixes the food with acid which helps to break down the proteins and complex carbohydrates so the body can utilize them.
Do carbohydrates breakdown sugar?
No, enzymes break carbohydrates down into sugar.
What structure inside the cell holds the digestive enzymes that break down the carbohydrates?
Lysosomes hold the digestive enzymes that break down the carbohydrates.
What structure inside the cell holds the digestive enzymes that break down carbohydrates?
Lysosomes hold the digestive enzymes that break down the carbohydrates.
Is amylase anabolic?
Amylase is an enzyme in the saliva of animals that helps to break down carbohydrates. This enzyme is anabolic because it requires energy.
What enzymes break down carbohydrates?
Amylases.
Why you makes saliva?
To break down carbohydrates
