What is dextrose? Dextrose is what’s known as a simple sugar. Chemically speaking it only has one molecule (what’s known as a monosaccharide) – meaning it’s incredibly easy for the body to break down.1 Dextrose is a starch-based sugar and is made from refined corn, rice, or wheat...
It is a branch of natural science that examines the building blocks of matter, including the atoms, molecules, and ions that make up compounds and their composition, structure, behaviour, and changes that occur when they interact with other things. The quantum mechanical approach is currently used...
What is the molecule rRNA a component of? What are the three components of nucleic acids? Which lipids have fused carbon rings? Which organic molecules are nucleic acids? What kind of macromolecule is made from amino acids? What molecule connects the sugars in a strand of DNA?
Alpha-Amylase, also known as starch-1,4-alpha-glucanohydrolase, is an enzyme that acts on starch by randomly cleaving alpha-1,4-glucosidic bonds within starch, glycogen, oligosaccharides, or polysaccharide molecules to produce maltose, oligosaccharides, and glucose. It is one of the most widely...
Water is composed of single oxygen covalently bonded to two hydrogen molecules. Water molecules form networks of molecules hydrogen-bonded to each other. Because of this, water has a relatively high boiling point. The water molecule is also highly polar....
This is what a peanut lectin looks like. They are a rather large structure involving dozens of different amino acids pieced together. That’s not a straightforward answer since each plant and animal has a unique type (or several). However, if you were treating them all as equal and simply...
Glucoamylase is an enzyme that breaks down starch molecules in the body into glucose. It's also used in the industrial production...
Alpha-Amylase, also known as starch-1,4-alpha-glucanohydrolase, is an enzyme that acts on starch by randomly cleaving alpha-1,4-glucosidic bonds with..
This is called catalysis, so enzymes are catalysts. How do enzymes work An enzyme is a large molecule but only a small part of the molecule is involved in catalysis. This part is called the active site. Each enzyme has a specific function; to break down a specific substance. This is ...
Another name for this type of molecule is polysaccharide. Simple carbohydrates are smaller. A simple carb is made of just one or two sugar molecules. These are also known as monosaccharides and disaccharides. The three monosaccharides found in food are glucose, fructose, and galactose. They ...