Enzymes And Digestion

Question 0

Catalyst

Answer 0

Something that makes a chemical reaction happen more quickly without itself being changed

Question 1

Enzyme

Answer 1

A biological catalyst

Question 2

Protein

Answer 2

One of the many substances found in food such as meat that is necessary for the body to grow

Question 3

Substrate

Answer 3

A substance or surface that an organism grows and lives on and is supported by

Question 4

Active site

Answer 4

A specific region of an enzyme where a substrate binds and catalysis takes place

Question 5

Activation energy

Answer 5

The least amount of energy required to activate atoms or molecules to a state in which they can undergo a chemical reaction

Question 6

Denaturation

Answer 6

The process in which proteins or nuclei acids lose the quaternary structure

Question 7

Oesophagus

Answer 7

The tube in the body that takes food from the mouth to the stomach

Question 8

Stomach

Answer 8

An organ where food is digested, or the soft front part of your body

Question 9

Duodenum

Answer 9

The first part of the vowels just below the stomach

Question 10

Gall bladder

Answer 10

Gall bladder a small organ in the body like a bag connected to the lover which stores bile

Question 11

Bile duct

Answer 11

The tube from the liver and gall bladder through which bile passes into the small intestine

Question 12

Pancreas

Answer 12

An organ in the body that produces insulin and substances that help to digest good so that it can be used by the body

Question 13

Ileum

Answer 13

The last and narrowest part of the small intestine where substances from food are absorbed

Question 14

Colon

Answer 14

The lower and bigger Hal of the bowels in which water in removed from solid waste

Question 15

Peristalsis

Answer 15

The repeated movements made by the muscle walls in the digestive tract tightening and then relaxing, which push food and waste through the body

Question 16

Digestion

Answer 16

The process by which your body digests food or your ability to digest food

Question 17

Carbohydrase

Answer 17

Any enzyme that causes a chemical reaction that helps the body to digest carbohydrate

Question 18

Amylase

Answer 18

An enzyme in saliva, plants, and I’m the pancreas that helps change starch into sugar

Question 19

Maltase

Answer 19

An enzyme that helps maltose change to glucose

Question 20

Protease

Answer 20

An enzyme which causes proteins to break into smaller pieces

Question 21

Pepsin

Answer 21

An enzyme that breaks down protein in food in the stomach and is produced by glands there

Question 22

Trypsin

Answer 22

A digestive enzyme which breaks down proteins in the small intestine, secreted by the pancreas

Question 23

Peptidase

Answer 23

An enzyme which breaks down peptides into amino acids

Question 24

Lipase

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A pancreatic enzyme that catalysed the breakdown of fats to fatty acids and glycerol

Question 25

Bile

Answer 25

A bitter alkaline fluid which aids digestion and is secreted by the liver and stored in the gall bladder

Question 26

Emulsification

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The breakdown of large fat globules into smaller, uniformly distributed particles

Question 27

Villi

Answer 27

Tiny, finger like projections that enable the small intestine to absorb nutrients from food

Question 28

Microvilli

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My of the minute hairlike structures projecting from the surface of certain types of epithelial cells

Question 29

Lacteals

Answer 29

Of or resembling milk

Question 30

Enzyme

Answer 30

Proteins that catalyse biochemical reactions

Question 31

How enzymes work

Answer 31

• substrate binds to active site

- enzyme substrate forms complex shape