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Question:

Describe the digestion of starch

Author: Gen Bailey



Answer:

Starch enters the mouth and is hydrolysed into maltose by salivary amylase. In the duodenum it is again hydroylsed into maltose by pancreactic amylase which is breaking the glycosidic bonds . then in the ileum the maltose is hydrolysed by membrane bound maltase into alpha glucose


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