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What type of organic compound is found in Amylase?
amylase has enzymes, but enzymes are not an organic compound. The four types of organic compounds would be lipids, nucleic acids carbohydrates and protein. Your body makes enzymes and amylase, and anything your body make is a protein. Therefore your answer is a protein.
If a starch was incubated with amylase at zero degrees Celsius would you expect to see any starch?
no
What would happen if you didnt have protease?
Protein wouldn't digest.
Name of the protein that can destroy protein?
An enzyme called a protease would digest proteins. Examples would be pepsin and trypsin.
If starch was incubated with amylase at 0 degrees celsius would you expect to see any starch digestion?
no
Why would you predict the pepsin would not digest starch?
Because Pepsin is the active form of a protein manufactured in the stomach.
Why doesn't saliva digest protein?
Carbohydrates are digested (hydrolyzed) by the enzyme amylase, found in saliva. However, saliva does not contain any protein-hydrolyzing enzymes. Enzymes are specific, meaning they will only hydrolyze the substrates (reactants) they were made to hydrolyze, so amylase will not hydrolyze proteins.
After a meal of greasy french fries which enzymes would you expect to be most active?
salivary and pancreatic amylase, dissaccharideases, lipase
A mutation in the genes for salivary amylase will greatly affect the chemical digestion of what?
Amylase is responsible for the digestion of starches in the body. If a mutation occurred in the genes coding for the production of amylase, this would interfere with the body's ability to digest starches and other complex carbohydrates (which begins in the mouth with enzymes from the salivary glands).
What might happen if salivary amylase was not present or didn't work properly?
You may not be able to digest your food in the stomach area it would just stay there and build up until eventually you vomit .
What would you expect for an individual if the parietal cells were not functioning?
Not to be able to initiate protein digestion in the stomach
What cooking method would you use to increase the digestability of protein?
To digest protein more efficiently, the protein needs to be combined with an acid. For example, when eating a steak, eat it with a vinaigrette on a salad or with a wine.
