Essays Tagged: "Maltose"

How nutrients get in, and wastes get out.

d for cellular respiration to occour. Starch is a large molecule, a polymer of glucose. Dextrin and maltose are intermediate products in the digestion of starch. Some foods contain carbohydrates in th ... cooked starch or dextrin, converting some of this starch into dextrin, and some of the dextrin into maltose. The salivary glands can be activated when food is thought of, while the actual presence of ...

(7 pages) 267 2 4.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

A comparison of the respiration of yeast in different sugar substrates.

east in different substrates of sugars, i.e. between a monosaccharide (glucose) and a disaccharide (maltose)Theory: There are three types of Carbohydrates, monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysacc ... ccharides. The two, which I will be looking at, are, monosaccharide (glucose) and the disaccharide (maltose)Classification and major properties of carbohydratesGroupPropertiesExamplesMonosaccharides g ...

(18 pages) 107 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Observing Emulsification and Comparing the Actions of Saliva and Pepsin: Lab report describing how emulsification may be observed in the lab

stomach and small intestine. Saliva containing amylase acts on starch to break it down into maltose, in the mouth, starting the process by which starch is broken down. After it has been swallo ... se, trypsin, and lipase. Amylase continues the process started in the mouth by breaking starch into maltose. Trypsin, like pepsin, further breaks proteins into polypeptides. Lipase breaks down the sma ...

(7 pages) 43 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Enzyme substrate complex

Amylase Starch Maltose I2KI starchBenedicts sugarLike most chemical reactions, the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reac ...

(4 pages) 46 0 0.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Organic compounds that compose the human body

cellular respiration. Disaccharides are joined by glycosidic linkages between two monosaccharides. Maltose, formed with two glucose molecules has a 1-4 glycosidic linkage between the number one carbo ...

(3 pages) 25 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Heavily summarised notes for biological molecules (carbohydrates)

- one molecule of water is removed from the pair of monosaccharides (Fig. 1).Common examples are:- maltose = glucose + glucose- lactose = glucose + galactose- sucrose = glucose + fructose- The bond f ...

(1 pages) 14 0 0.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

An Investigation Into The Effect Of Enzyme

enzyme in the human body to do different jobs. For example, starch in the body is digested to sugar maltose, by an enzyme called amylase. The chemical which I will be using is hydrogen peroxide which ...

(11 pages) 44 0 3.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

The Efeects Of Salivary Amylase On Starch Hydrolysis Under Different PH Levels

is process is activated by the salivary enzyme within the mouth which catalyses polysacharides into maltose, a disaccharide. Maltose is then further broken down into simple sugars(glucose) by maltase, ...

(3 pages) 25 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Biology AT1 'rate Of Reaction' Planing And Obtaining

lase being highly acidic) it can break down biological substances into fatty acids and in this case maltose.The factors that effect enzymes are- *temperature: Increasing the temperature leads to an in ...

(3 pages) 7 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Untitled

Benedict Test + or - 1.Glucose + 2.Maltose + 3.Sucrose - ... IKI + or - 1.Starch + (Blue) 2.Maltose - (Yellow) 3.Sucrose - (Yellow) ...

(1 pages) 1078 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Copper Sulphate On Amylase

the effect of changing the copper sulphate concentration on the rate of the hydrolysis of starch to maltose using the enzyme amylase. Copper sulphate was used because it acted as an inhibitor.Hypothes ... idic bonds in starch. By doing this it meant that the starch, a polysaccharide was broken down into maltose, a disaccharide. However, copper sulphate would interfere with starch for the active sites a ...

(1 pages) 5733 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry