Question

What role to the various digestive enzymes play in the digestive process? Give an example for protein, lipid and carbohydrate digestion?

Answer 1

enzyme is to speed up the reaction that occur during the digestion.the digestion of starch use saliva as the enzyme.i forgot the name for enzyme for lipid and protein,sorry

Answer 2

Aathera is right in that enzymes speed up the rates of energetically favourable reactions that occur in all biologic processes; however, saliva is a solution which contains many different digestive enzymes, not digestive enzymes themselves.

As suggested by the prob there are three main classes of enzymes: those which act on the three main classes of dietary molecules - carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Loosely, those which act on carbohydrates do so by hydrolyzing the bonds joining individual monosaccharides into polysaccharides. Proteases do pretty much the same thing for proteins. Lipases break apart fats and fatty acyls into glycerol and other alcohols.

Answer 3

yes!protease!

Answer 4

the enzymes prays arole of speeding up the digestive process.Example for protein is protease, lipid is lipase and cabohydrate is amylase