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Basically is in the brush border membranes of the intestinal mucosa. However, the digestion of starch occurs in stages and begins in the mouth. Saliva contains a-amylase, which randomly hydrolyses all the a(1 → 4) glucosidic bonds of starch except its outermost bonds and those next to branches. By the time thoroughly chewed food reaches the stomach, where the acidity inactivates a-amylase, the average chain length of starch has been reduced from several thousand to fewer than eight glucose units. Starch digestion continues in the small intestine under the influence of pancreatic a-amylase, which is similar to salivary enzyme. This enzyme degrades starch to a mixture of the disaccharide maltose, the trisaccharide maltotriose, and oligosaccharides. These oligosaccharides are hydrolyzed to their component monosaccharides by specific enzymes contained in the intestinal mucosa: an a-glucosidase, an a-dextrinase or debranching enzyme, and a sucrase (which in infants is replaced by a lactase).
It's the salivary glands. The enzyme is called amylase.
The salivary glands of the mouth (oral cavity) contains salivary amylases that break down starch and glycogen.
The mouth (saliva), and the pancreas.
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amylase
The enzyme in your saliva is Amylase, which is used to breakdown Amylose, a form of starch. Starch is a complex carbohydrate, so the enzyme in your saliva breaks down complex carbohydrates.
emzymes are a substance which can break down a chemical called starch by francine Morrison
Ptyalin is the chemical in human saliva that helps break down food in your mouth.
Basically is in the brush border membranes of the intestinal mucosa. However, the digestion of starch occurs in stages and begins in the mouth. Saliva contains a-amylase, which randomly hydrolyses all the a(1 → 4) glucosidic bonds of starch except its outermost bonds and those next to branches. By the time thoroughly chewed food reaches the stomach, where the acidity inactivates a-amylase, the average chain length of starch has been reduced from several thousand to fewer than eight glucose units. Starch digestion continues in the small intestine under the influence of pancreatic a-amylase, which is similar to salivary enzyme. This enzyme degrades starch to a mixture of the disaccharide maltose, the trisaccharide maltotriose, and oligosaccharides. These oligosaccharides are hydrolyzed to their component monosaccharides by specific enzymes contained in the intestinal mucosa: an a-glucosidase, an a-dextrinase or debranching enzyme, and a sucrase (which in infants is replaced by a lactase).
The salivary glands of the mouth (oral cavity) contains salivary amylases that break down starch and glycogen.
it contains enzymes which break the starch down to sugar
Starch is a polysaccharide ie. a very complex carbohydrate. Enzymes break it down into a di-saccharide - maltose. Another enzymes then converts this into the monosaccharide (simple sugar), glucose.
stuff like crackers has starch in it. the enzymes in your mouth break down starch (in about 5 inutes) into simple sugars.
Amylases (enzymes) break down or degrade starch.
The substance that contains a starch-splitting enzyme is the pancreatic juice and saliva. The two types of enzymes that break down starch are pancreatic amylase and salivary amylase.
Saliva contains enzymes which catalyse the breakdown of starch to maltose and dextrin. If starch solution is treated with saliva, these simpler sugars will soon start to form, which means the mixture will give the Benedict's test.
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The enzyme eg. Amylase will break down the starch into sugar.
The stomach contains enzymes that break down protein.
Enzymes are the cause of starch degradation.
The enzymes in the saliva help break down the starch in the cracker.