Digestive
enzymes in the gut include proteases, which digest proteins. Why don’t these
enzymes digest the stomach and small intestine, which are partially composed of
protein?
. What is
the function of amylase? What does amylase do to starch?
2. Which of
the foods tested between an onion, ginger root, apple and lime, contained amylase? Which did not? What experimental evidence
supports your claim?
3. Saliva
does not contain amylase until babies are two months old. How could this affect
an infant’s digestive requirements?
4. There is
another digestive enzyme (other than salivary amylase) that is secreted by the
salivary glands. Research to determine what this enzyme is called. What
substrate does it act on? Where in the body does it become activated, and why?
5. Digestive
enzymes in the gut include proteases, which digest proteins. Why don’t these
enzymes digest the stomach and small intestine, which are partially composed of
protein?
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