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What type of food molecule is broken down to glucose by digestion?
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∙ 14y ago
Sugars and starches are broken down into glucose.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 14y agoStarch because starch molecules are too big so they turn into gluclose gradually>
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What molecule increases the rate at which starch is broken down into glucose?
Enzyme
What sugars does starch break down into?
sugarStarch is a carbohydrate.Starch is broken down into moltose or glucose.Starch is broken down into glucose by enzymes during digestion. Starch is a polysaccharide that must be broken down into a simple sugar called a monosaccharide. Glucose is a monosaccharide.
What is a 6-carbon molecule that is broken down to make ATP?
glucose. it is broken in the cytoplasm
What is the most important During digestion carbohydrates are broken down into simple sugars?
glucose
Into what substance do most carbohydrates break down during digestion?
Carbohydrates are broken down into glucose in your body.
What carbohydrates require a process of digestion in order to be broken down into glucose and help maintain proper blood sugar levels?
Complex carbohydrates require digestion in order to be broken down into glucose and to help maintain proper blood sugar levels.
During digestion carbohydrates are broken down into simple sugars the most important one is what?
glucose
During digestion carbohydrates are broken down into simple sugars. The most important one is?
glucose
During digestion what molecule enters the cell?
The goal of digestion is to break down food to the glucose level. Only then will it be absorbed into the cell and be used in respiration.
When a molecule of glucose is broken down b y aerobic respiration the energy stored in the glucose gets transferred to?
The energy stored in the glucose molecule gets transferred to molecules of ATP.
Each sucrose molecule is hydrolyzed in the small intestine to form one molecule of what?
The sucrose molecules are broken down in the molecules of glucose which is the simplest form od the saccharides. The sucrose in the body is not readily metabolized but it has to be broken down into simpler form of molecules. The glucose is easily metabolized int he body.
What is the first molecule broken down in the cytoplasm during respiration?
Glucose is the molecule.One ATP is used.
