Enzymes and digestion

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What are enzymes made of?
Amino acids
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What are enzymes?
A type of biological catalysts. They are also proteins
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What do enzymes do?
Help to speed up the breaking down process of food molecules
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What does the enzyme Amylase do?
Breaks down startch into sugars
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What does the enzyme lipease do?
Breaks down fats into fattacids and glycerol
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What does the enzyme protease do?
Breaks down proteins into amino acids
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Where is amylase made?
Salivary glands, pancreas and small intestine
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Where is lipease made?
Pancreas, small intestine
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Where is protease made?
Pancreas, stomach and small intestine
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What is the active site?
Where the reaction happens between the substrate and enzyme
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What is the substrate-enzyme structure look like?
A lock and key
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What happens if the temperature is raised above the optimum temperature or is not close to the optimum pH?
The shape of the active site becomes denatured and the reaction
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What reactions are catalysed by enzymes?
Respiration, photosynthesis and digestion
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Why does each substrate have a particular enzyme?
Each is enzyme has a specific job, amino acid numbers and orders are a result of this. These cause a different shaped active site
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What to happens to enzymes once they have helped one reaction?
They do the process again
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What increases the surface area in the small intestine?
The villi
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Why does the small intestine need a larger surface area?
So more broken down food molecules can be absorbed
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What is used to do mechanical digestion?
Teeth
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What is used to do chemical digestion?
Enzymes
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What does bile do?
Emulsifiers fat (makes tiny droplets of fat to help digestion
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