APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Amylases digest starch into smaller molecules, ultimately yielding maltose, which in turn is cleaved into two glucose molecules by maltase. Starch comprises a significant portion of the typical human diet for most nationalities.

Detailed explanation-2: -Why can the same enzyme not break down cellulose? The enzyme cannot attack cellulose because of its helical shape. Cellulose molecules are much too large.

Detailed explanation-3: -Without amylase, you would be unable to digest starches and sugars. Fiber is a form of carbohydrate as well, but amylase is unable to break it down and it passes through your body undigested.

Detailed explanation-4: -Amylase breaks down starch (a long-chain saccharide) into smaller sugars such as maltose. It does this using a water molecule to break the glycosidic bonds in the starch compound. A catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of reaction without being used up.

Detailed explanation-5: -amylase, any member of a class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis (splitting of a compound by addition of a water molecule) of starch into smaller carbohydrate molecules such as maltose (a molecule composed of two glucose molecules).