NURSING ANM AND GNM

NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS

BIOCHEMISTRY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
After eating a large plate of spaghetti, an organism must break down the starch into it smaller monomer sugars using which reaction?
A
dehydration
B
hydrolysis
C
rehydration
D
photosynthesis
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Chemical digestion, through a process called hydrolysis, uses water and digestive enzymes to break down the complex molecules. Digestive enzymes speed up the hydrolysis process, which is otherwise very slow.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mechanical digestion can only break up the food particles into smaller pieces. A chemical digestion process called enzymatic hydrolysis can break the bonds holding the molecular ‘building blocks’ within the food together.

Detailed explanation-3: -Our body relies on three major types of food, carbohydrates or carbs, fats, and proteins. During digestion, these three types of food are broken down by the same type of chemical reaction, called hydrolysis.

Detailed explanation-4: -Amylases digest starch into smaller molecules, ultimately yielding maltose, which in turn is cleaved into two glucose molecules by maltase.

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