The Digestive System

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What are starch, proteins and fats?
They are big molecules which are too big to pass through the walls of the digestive system
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What are sugars, amino acids, glycerol and fatty acids?
They are small molecules that pass easily through the walls of the digestive system.
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What do digestive enzymes do?
They break down the big molecules into smaller ones.
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What are the three digestive enzymes?
carbohydrases, proteases and lipase
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What do carbohydrases do? e.g. (amylase)
Carbohydrases digest starch into sugars
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What do proteases do? (e.g. pepsin)
They digest proteins to amino acids.
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What does lipase do?
Lipase digests fat to fatty acids and glycerol.
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What are sugars, amino acids, glycerol and fatty acids?

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They are small molecules that pass easily through the walls of the digestive system.

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What are the three digestive enzymes?

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What do carbohydrases do? e.g. (amylase)

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