2.29 Digestive Enzymes

understand the role of disgestive enzymes to include the digestion of startch to glucose by amylase and maltase the digestion protein to amino acids by proteases and the digestion of lipids to fatty acids and glycerol by lipases

  • Digestive enzymes turn insoluble food that humans disgest in to soluble molecules which is then absorbered in to the blood steam. This happens in the small intestine
  • There are 3 types of this process. The first one includes starch uses the enzymes amylase startch them which become broken up maltose
  • Maltose is then broken which becomes glucose which is soluble, it then breaks down of proteins its broken down my enzymes called proteases which then turn in to amino acid
  • The third type of digestion is when lipids are broken down by lipase which then becomes glycerol and fatty acids

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