Enzymes

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December 23, 2014

 

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The amylase begins the breakdown of starch into maltose and lactose, which are disachharide (double) sugars. The teeth physically breakdown food, which mixes with saliva to ease swallowing. Gastric juice is secreted by gastric pits in the stomach lining when the food enters. The gastric juice contains hydrochloric acid which gives the stomach its pH of 2...
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The gastric juice contains hydrochloric acid which gives the stomach its pH of 2.0, the optimum pH for proteases. The hydrochloric acid kills any bacteria which the food may contain, it also activates the enzyme pepsinogen. Once activated the pepsinogen forms pepsin. If it were to be activated when released then the pepsin would digest the stomach wall as the stomach is protein...
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