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Why do digestive enzymes break down large food molecules into smaller molecules?

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So they can easily be absorbed through the small intestine wall into the bloodstream

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What do protease enzymes include?

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Pepsin (stomach) trypsin (small intestine)

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What does carbohydrase enzymes include?

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Amylase (saliva in the mouth) Maltese, sucrase, lactase (small intestine)

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4
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Where are lipase enzymes found?

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In the small intestine

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5
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What is a protein molecule made up of?

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Many different amino acids

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6
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What does protease break down?

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Protein molecules

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7
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What is a starch molecule made up of?

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Many glucose molecules

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8
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What breaks down carbohydrate molecules?

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Carbohydrase

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9
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What is made up of fatty acids and glycerol molecules?

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Fat molecules

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10
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What breaks down fat molecules?

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Lipase

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11
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Each ……………… Group has a chemical test

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Food

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12
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What can we use food tests for?

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To monitor enzyme-controlled reactions

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13
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From orangey brown what colour does iodine turn into when it reacts with starch

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Blue black

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14
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For a strong positive result What colour does blue Benedictics solution turn when it’s boiled with glucose?

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Red

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For a medium positive result what colour does blue Benedicts solution turn when it’s boiled with glucose?

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Yellow orange precipitate

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For a weak result what colour does blue Benedicts solution turn when it’s boiled with glucose

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Green

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17
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For a negative result what colour with blue Benedicts solutions turn when it’s boiled with glucose?

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Blue

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18
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How do you test if protein is in a food?

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Put the chopped up food in a test tube, add potassium hydroxide, shake, add copper surface and if it’s purple in colour there’s protein, if it turn blue there isn’t

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19
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What colour does fats go when they are mixed with ethanol and water?

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Cloudy white for a positive result

Clear for a negative result

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20
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How do you test food for fat?

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Place 1cm* of ethanol in a test tube
Add and few drops of oil in the test tube and mix by shaking
Add an equal amount of water in the test tube and shake

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21
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What is a substrate?

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A substrate is something that an enzyme breaks down

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22
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In the lock and key model what does the represent?

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The active site

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23
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In the lock and key model what does the lock represent?

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The enzyme

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A key needs to be a …………… ……….. To fit in a specific lock

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Specific shape

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25
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What are the shapes?

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Complementary

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26
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What will the key not fit into?

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A different lock

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27
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What the lock and key model?

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It’s analogy for how enzymes work

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28
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What are enzymes?

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Protein molecules

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29
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What do enzymes do?

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They are biological catalysts and they speed up reactions in cells

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30
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What do they reman?

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Unchanged by a reaction and can be re used unless they’re denatured

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31
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What fits into the little dip in the enzymes?

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The substrate

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32
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What is the Optimum temperature for most enzymes?

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37*

33
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When does the shape of the active site change?

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At higher temperatures

34
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What happens when the shape is the active site changes?

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It’s denatured

35
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What happens when an enzyme denatures?

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The substrate can no longer fit into the active site, the reaction stops

36
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What is denaturing due to collisions between enzyme and substrate

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Heat is irreversible what does heat cause?

37
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What happens when enzymes denature at high temperatures?

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The rate of reaction falls rapidly

38
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Apart from at high temperatures what other ways can denaturing happen?

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It also happens when the PH far away from the optimum, this change can be reversed

39
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What is the OPTIMUM ph or temperature?

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Optimum is the maximum rate of reaction

40
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What is the optimum PH for pepsin (stomach enzyme)?

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2

41
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What is the optimum PH for trypsin (intestinal enzyme)?

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8

42
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What’s the job of the savlivary amylase!

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To break down starch into glucose

43
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What conditions does the salivary amylase work in?

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Alkaline conditions

44
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In the stomach what enzyme is denatured due to stomach acid?

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Salivary amylase

45
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Why does the pancreas secrete amylase?

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So that the digestion of starch can carry on in the small intestine

46
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What acid is there in gage stomachs?

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Hydrochloric acid

47
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Why is starch being turned into glucose by amylase essential?

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Because glucose is used in the process of respiration which makes energy for the cells

48
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What are enzymes made of?

A

Proteins

49
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What substances can we describe as being biological catalysts?

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Enzymes

50
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What is the job of the enzyme amylase?

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Breaks down starch into glucose

51
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What is throb of the enzyme lipase?

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Breaks down fats into fatty acids and glycerol

52
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What is the job of the enzyme protease?

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Breaks down proteins into amino acids

53
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Name two places in the body you could find amylase

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In saliva/mouth and in the small intestine

54
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Where would you find the protease enzyme called pepsin?

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In the stomach

55
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Where would you find the protease enzyme called trypsin?

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In the small intestine

56
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At what pH does pepsin work best?

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PH1-2

57
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At what pH does trypsin work best?

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PH8

58
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Where in the body would you find the enzyme lipase?

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In the small intestine

59
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Why are enzymes so important?

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They make reactions in cells go faster

60
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How would you test for starch?

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Add iodine. It should change from image to blue-black

61
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How would you test for protein?

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Add sodium hydroxide solution. And fridge blue copper sulphate solution in. It should form a violet precipitate

62
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How would you test for glucose?

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Add blue Benedicts solution. And boil for 5 mins. It should turn green then brick red

63
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How would you test for facts?

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Add ethanol and shake. It should turn milky (forms an emulsion)

64
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I burn a peanut and use the flame to heat up some water I measure the energy given out. What is the process called?

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Calorimetry

65
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In calorimetry, what is the temperature rise of the water equal to?

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The heat give out by the burning food

66
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In calorimetry, mass of water X temperature change X 4.2=what?

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Energy in food (joules)

67
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In the lock and key model what what do these represent?

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Lock= enzyme, key =substrate

68
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Where on an enzyme does the substrate fit?

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The active site

69
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Describe the shape of the active site

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Specific and complementary to the substrate

70
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What causes enzymes to have a very specific shaped active site?

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The particular order of amino acids that make up the protein

71
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What is the optimum temperature for many enzymes?

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37 degrees C

72
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Why can amylase not work on proteins?

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The active site is not the correct shape

73
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If an enzyme if heated to beyond 40 degrees C, what happens?

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The active site is denatured

74
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What do we mean by the optimum pH that an enzyme works at?

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The pH that gives the maximum rate of reaction

75
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Why do enzymes work within a very narrow pH range?

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Outside of the range, the enzyme is denatured

76
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What happens to the rate of a reaction as you increase the substrate concentration?

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It increases until it reaches a maximum rate after which there is no further increase

77
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What is the equation to work out a rate of reaction?

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1000 ➗ time taken in seconds

78
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What are digestive enzymes used for?

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To break down large food molecules into smaller food molecules

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