Amylase And The Digestion Of Amyylase

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Introduction
Amylase is an enzyme that's used to break down the glucose chains within starch and is found in saliva (Morgan & Carter 2014). Starch is broken down to its simplest form, amylose, which is digested by its enzyme amylase. Amylase is important to the digestion of carbohydrates, especially those found in plants, like starch. Starch is used for storage of glucose which is used to [insert use here]. Carbohydrate makes up about 60 percent of daily calories. The digestion of carbohydrates produces energy that is processed and used by cells for different reasons. Enzymes are specialized proteins that speed reaction rates within the body and cells. They are important to digestion and synthesis (Reece, et al. 2017).
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The dilution of amylase is of 0.5% amylase, 0.25% amylase, 0.125% amylase, 0.063% amylase and 0.31% amylase (Morgan & Carter 2014). These solutions are made to be 5 milliliters in test tubes labeled 1 through 5 in order of descending concentration. In the second set of test tubes labeled 1 through 5, we transferred 2 milliliters into the corresponding test tubes, using a 5-mL pipette to transfer the solutions. Two milliliters of pH buffer solution was added to each test tube of the second set (Morgan & Carter 2014). Two sets of plates have 1-2 drops of I2KI, Lugol's iodine, are added to the four rows of wells on plates (Morgan & Carter 2014). Starting with test tube 5 of the second set, add 1 mL of one-percent starch to the solution, this solution is then mixed by rolling the test tube in your hands (Morgan & Carter 2014). One 1 mL of the solution is pipetted into one of the wells and are immediately timed, beginning with time at 0 (Morgan & Carter 2014). The mixtures are recorded for reactions with the plate every 10 seconds, using new wells every 30 seconds for a new reaction (Morgan & Carter 2014). After 4 minutes with no, the wells are changed to 30-second intervals and testing is done after 7 minutes. This procedure was repeated for the other four tubes in set 2 (Morgan & Carter

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