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What enzyme digests starch into disaccharides and trisaccharides?

The enzyme that breaks down starch is called amylase


What is the name of the enzyme that breaks down starch?

The enzyme that breaks down starch is called amylase.


Salivary amylase breaks down starches?

breakdown of amylase and amylopectin into disaccharides and trisaccharides


What enzyme breaks down starch in the digestive system?

The enzyme that breaks down starch in the digestive system is called amylase.


What enzyme breaks down starches in the human body?

The enzyme that breaks down starches in the human body is called amylase.


What enzymes involved in carbohydrate digestion indicating their origin site of action substrates and product?

Amylase - saliva - breaks down polysaccharides into disaccharides - resulting in maltose or sugar.Pancreatic amylase - small intestine - coverts polysaccharides into disaccharides - resulting in maltose or very small glucose.Lactose, sucrose, maltose, alpha dextrinase - lining of small intestine - splits disaccharides into monosaccharides.


What disaccharide does the digestive enzyme amylase break down starch to?

Amylase helps the break down of starch into sugars (disaccharides). Amylase itself is not broken down. It is an enzyme and it doesn't enter into the reaction in any way. The disaccharide that is formed is sucrose, maltose or lactose.


What is the name of the enzyme that breaks down starch in the digestive system?

The enzyme that breaks down starch in the digestive system is called amylase.


What happens after the enzyme amylase breaks down a starch molecule?

After the enzyme amylase breaks down a starch molecule, it breaks it into smaller sugar molecules called maltose.


What enzyme breaks down rice?

An amylase is an enzyme that breaks starch down into sugar.


What enzyme breaks down vegetables?

Cellulase - breaks down vegetables and cellulose material


If lactase breaks down lactose and galactose then the enzyme sucrase breaks down?

The enzyme sucrase breaks down sucrose. Glucose and fructose are the products of this chemical reaction.