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Why do you need startch to make energy?
Because the body breaks down starch with enzymes to make glucose, which is used as an energy source for the body and muscles and is also used in respiration.
Which of the following statements describes the process of anaerobic glycolysis A The body breaks down oxygen and glycogen to produce energy B The body partially breaks down glucose to?
The body manufactures ATP by breaking down glycogen or glucose. The ATP is then partially broken down to provide energy, leaving behind lactic acid. After about three minutes of activity, enough lactic acid accumulates around the muscles to cause muscle fatigue. No oxygen is involved in this anaerobic process.
What nutrients yield the highest amount of energy per gram when metabolized?
starch is the nutrient that provides greatest amount of energy. during the process of digestion starch is converted into maltose which is then converted into glucose. breaking down of 1 glucose molecule provides 2780kilo joules of energy.
Does glucose store energy?
After the energy from sunlight, glucose is probably the most important molecule on earth. In photosynthesis, energy from sunlight is converted into chemical energy stored in the chemical bonds of glucose. But sunlight remains the ultimate source of energy for almost all species on the earth.
What are the steps in energy conversion?
Glucose taken into the cell, glucose broken down to yield ATP, ATP used for cellular activities.
Is glucoamylase an enzyme?
No, it's not an enzyme, it's a simple sugar.
What enzyme breaks down carbohydrates?
Several. * Amylase breaks down starch to simpler sugar * sucrase breaks down sucrose to glucose * maltase breaks down maltose to glucose
What is the substance that breaks down starch into sugar?
Maltase
What kind of enzyme breaks down carbohydrates?
Starch is the polysaccharide which is broken down into glucose by the body in a series of stages. Amylase digests starch into maltose (a disaccharide). Maltase is the enzyme which breaks maltose into glucose.
Which enzyme will break down starch into smaller monosaccharide molecules?
Alpha amylase is the enzyme that breaks down starch into it's individual glucose monosaccharide molecules.
What is the hydrolytic product of starch?
glucose maltose and maltotriose
What enzyme breaks down rice?
An amylase is an enzyme that breaks starch down into sugar.
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.
Why is it sweet when you chew starch?
Chewing, or mastication, uses the teeth to mechanically tear apart the food. Saliva contains amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starches in the mouth.
When amylase breaks down starch what does it release?
amylase breaks starch down and releases maltose from which maltase breaks it up into two glucose molecules
Is glucose a catalyst?
No, biological catalysts are called enzymes and they are proteins. The enzyme called "amylase" which is found in your saliva breaks down starch molecules into glucose monomers.
Saliva contains an enzyme that breaks down?
starch
