FOOD CHEMISTRY
CARBOHYDRATES PROTEINS AND LIPIDS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Hydrolysis
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Dehydration synthesis
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hydrolysis reactions use water to breakdown polymers into monomers and is the opposite of dehydration synthesis, which forms water when synthesizing a polymer from monomers. Hydrolysis reactions break bonds and release energy.
Detailed explanation-2: -A type of protein, enzymes can help in the process of hydrolysis by speeding up the reaction and breaking the bonds. Hydrolysis breaks the bonds of polymers by the addition of water. The opposite can also occur, where the monomers are built up to a polymer through the process of dehydration synthesis.
Detailed explanation-3: -Usually hydrolysis is a chemical process in which a molecule of water is added to a substance. Sometimes this addition causes both the substance and water molecule to split into two parts. In such reactions, one fragment of the target molecule (or parent molecule) gains a hydrogen ion.