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What organ secretes enzymes which can digest all 3 energy containing nutrients?
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∙ 11y ago
pancreas.
It contains pancreatic juice which contains:
1. amylase
2. lipase
3. protease
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What is the main chemical used to digest foods are?
Enzymes
Why do the walls of stomach secret HCL?
The stomach secretes HCL to partially digest the food and to kill any bacteria present in the food.
Does Hydrochloric acid digest protein?
No - it is the enzymes that reside in the acid which carry out the digestion of proteins. The acid a) provides a suitable pH for the proteases (protein-digesting enzymes) ,and b) kills microbes on our food.
Why are humans not able to use cellulose for energy?
Humans don't have the enzymes required to digest it. Cellulose is made up of sugars, but they are intertwined in a more complicated way than starch.
How does hydrochloric acid help the body?
It is an important component of gastric acid, the acid in the stomach that brings about digestion. Hydrochloric acid helps to digest proteins by making them unravel. Enzymes can then break them down.
What secretes enzymes that digest food outside their bodies?
Fungi
What role does the pancreas play in the digestive process?
The pancreas secretes digestive substances into the small intestine to help digest certain kinds of nutrients.
What manufactures enzymes to digest all energy-yielding nutrients?
the pancreas
What manufactures enzymes to digest all energy yielding nutrients?
the pancreas
How does the pancreas help digest food?
The pancreas secretes bile, a digestive enzyme, into the intestines. Food is broken up and nutrients carried out into the the blood. The pancreas secretes enzymes that include lipases that digest fat, proteases which digest proteins, and amylases which digest starch molecules.
What secretes enzymes that digest carbohydrates proteins lipids and nucleic acids?
Proteins are digested by proteases and cabohydratases digest carbohydrase (amylase, galactosidase, cellulase etc.)
Which are the membrane bound organelles containing enzymes that digest particles in the cell?
Lysosomes
What are the factors that affect the efficiency of the enzyme system?
Maintaining the proper balance will help your system digest enzymes efficiently. If you don't have the right nutrients, your system will not properly digest enzymes.
What produces enzymes to digest bacteria?
Tears produce lysozyme to kill bacteria, gastric juice secretes Hcl that kills bacteria.
Pancreatic fluid contains enzymes that can digest all four types of macromolecules carbohydrates lipids proteins and nucleic acids Into which organ does the pancreas secrete those enzymes?
The pancreas secretes enzymes into organ 4, the small intestine.
Why does enzymes digest large food molecules?
toto enable digestion and subsequently absorbtion of food nutrients
What effect do enzymes in the intestine have on protein?
Once you digest food the enzymes in the intestine will digest the nutrients into small components. So that they could be absorbed by the intestine into the bloodstream, and throughout the body in order to be reused by the body cells.
