Digestion

Question 1

Proteins are essential to build…

Answer 1

Muscles

Question 2

Eg of protease (2)

Answer 2

Pepsin, trypsin

Question 3

Functions of fat and oils in our diet (3)

Answer 3

Using in production of cell membranes, storing energy and heat insulation.

Question 4

Where is lipase produced?

Answer 4

In the pancreas

Question 5

Where is bile made?

Answer 5

In the liver

Question 6

1 product of fat digestion

Answer 6

Glycerol

Question 7

Fatty acids & glycerol are absorbed into the…

Answer 7

Blood stream

Question 8

What is a catalyst?

Answer 8

A substance that speeds up the rate of a reaction

Question 9

Hello

Question 10

What is Amylase?

Answer 10

An enzyme made in the mouth and pancreas

Question 11

What does Amylase do?

Answer 11

It catalyses the breakdown of starch to smaller sugar molecules

Question 12

What does the iodine test identify?

Answer 12

The presence of starch

Question 13

Denatured definition

Answer 13

The breaking down of an enzyme so the substrate doesn’t fit anymore, the enzyme can no longer function as a catalyst

Question 14

What causes denaturation? (2)

Answer 14

Changes in ph, and increase in temperature

Question 15

What are amino acids?

Answer 15

The building blocks of protein

Question 16

What does the digestion of starch make?

Answer 16

Glucose

Question 17

What are lipids broken down into? (2)

Answer 17

Fatty acids and glycerol

Question 18

Carbohydrase enzymes break down starch into?

Answer 18

Sugars

Question 19

Protease enzymes break down proteins into?

Answer 19

Amino acids

Question 20

What’s the name of the substance that is broken down by an enzyme

Answer 20

Substrate

Question 21

Function of enzymes

Answer 21

To break down large food molecules (the molecules are too large to pass from the intestine into the blood)

Question 22

Where is amylase produced? (3)

Answer 22

Salivary glands,pancreas and small intestine

Question 23

Why don’t enzymes work well at low temperatures

Answer 23

They don’t have energy

Question 24

Lipids are broken down into

Answer 24

Glycerol and fatty acids by lipase

Question 25

Proteins are broken down into

Answer 25

Amino acids by protease

Question 26

Starch is broken down into

Answer 26

Maltose and other simple sugars by carbohydrases(eg:amylase)