Question

Hydrolysis reactions are responsible for

a) conversion of fructose into glucose

b) formation if glycogen in the liver

c) breakdown of starch in the digestive tract

d) formation of sucrose in sugar beets

Answer 1

Answer ---- ( C ) breakdown of starch in the digestive system.

Hydrolysis is the chemical reaction in which water molecule is used to break the large molecules into a simpler one.

These types of reactions are known to be opposite of the condesation reactions where small molecules joins together to form a large one.

Lysis means to break or broken something so water molecule is used and complex molecules are broken into the smaller one.

The process of hydrolysis is seen in the human body in the process of digestion , in digestion water molecules are used and in the presence of enzymes the complex molecules are broken into the small for the purpose of proper digestion.

So there is a starch which is digested by the enzyme amylase in the mouth secreted from.the salivary gland and also severed later from the pancreas.

The starch is hydrolyzed in the presence of water with the enzyme and then produce the maltose and some sort of glucose.

So the right answer is C hydrolysis is seen the digestion process in the body for the break of large molecules into the simple digestible form.

While the formation or conversion of big molecule from the smaller one is not called lysis it is the genesis and a type of condensation process.

Glycogen is formed in the liver cells in the presence of the hormone insulin and this is called glycogenesis.

While the conversion of the fructose into the glucose is also called gluconeogenesis.

Formation of sucrose is also.the complex process and doesnot comes in the lysis process.

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