Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceChemistryBiomolecules1 Mark
MCQ
Starch is converted into maltose by an enzyme:
A
Maltase
B
Zymase
✓
Diastase
D
Invertage
✓
Answer
Correct option: C.
Diastase
Starch is converted into maltose by an enzyme diastase. During this process, in this regime the diastatic enzymes start acting on the starches, breaking them up into sugars $($hence the term saccharification$).$
The amylases are enzymes that work by hydrolyzing the straight chain bonds between the individual glucose molecules that make up the starch chain. A single straight chain starch is called an amylose.
A branched starch chain $($which can be considered as being built from amylose chains$)$ is called an amylopectin. These starches are polar molecules and have different ends.
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