BIOMOLECULES AND ENZYMES

Detailed explanation-1: -Mutton refers to the flesh of the mature ram or ewe at least one year old; the meat of sheep between 12 and 20 months old may be called yearling mutton.

Detailed explanation-2: -A sheep in its first year is a lamb and its meat is also lamb. The meat from sheep in their second year is hogget. Older sheep meat is mutton.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hogget’ refers to animals between 1-2 years old, and is a delicious combination of tender lamb and full-flavoured mutton. Hogget can be cooked hot and quick like lamb, or low and slow – anywhere in between and it might toughen up.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lamb meat is simply meat from young sheep under one year of age. Mutton is the meat of mature sheep, harvested between 2 to 3 years of age to produce mutton cuts.

Detailed explanation-5: -• Goat – Meat from a mature goat is called chevon, from the French word for goat. The meat of a young goat is referred to as kid. Milk-fed young goat is called cabrito, from the Spanish and Portuguese word. Incidentally, in some countries, goat meat is also referred to as mutton.