Small Intestine Absorption

Question 1

Pancreatic amylase

Answer 1

Continues to chop short-chain saccharides into smaller units

Question 2

Sucrase/Lactase/Maltase

Answer 2

Break disaccharides (sucrose, lactose, and maltose) into monomers, and the trisaccharide maltotriose into monomers, inside the SI

Question 3

a-dextrinase

Answer 3

breaks down starches to short chain polymers, tri- & di-saccharides, inside the SI

Question 4

Trypsin, chymotrypsin, carboxypeptidase & dipeptidase

Answer 4

Part of pancreatic juice, they hydrolyze polypeptides to tripeptides, dipeptides, or single amino acids

Question 5

Amino- & di-peptidase

Answer 5

brush border enzymes of the SI that help out with hydrolysis of proteins to amino acids

Question 6

Lingual & gastric lipase

Answer 6

Lipolytic enzymes working in the stomach to cut triglycerides down to diglycerides

Question 7

Pancreatic lipase

Answer 7

Part of pancreatic juice, continuing to hydrolyze triglycerides into diglycerides

Question 8

Ribo- & Deoxyribonuclease

Answer 8

Part of pancreatic juice, hydrolyzing nucleic acids into nucleotide subunits

Question 9

Nucleosidase & Phosphatase

Answer 9

brush border enzymes breaking nucleotides into their component parts (sugar, base & phosphate group)