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I am investigating how temperature influences the break down of starch into sugar using the enzyme amylase.
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Aim: - I am investigating how temperature influences the break down of starch into sugar using the enzyme amylase. Introduction: - If many simple sugars join together, a very large molecule called a polysaccharide is formed. Some polysaccharide molecules contain thousands of sugar molecules joined together in a long chain. Starch is a polysaccharide made up of glucose molecules. The experiments I shall be conducting will breakdown starch into maltose by using amylase; the maltose will then be broke down by the enzyme maltase into glucose. Variables are conditions that you can adjust during the experiment. Variables are factors that can affect the rate of a reaction. Examples of variables are temperature, surface area, PH level and concentration. Temperature may affect the breakdown of starch; in most experiments temperature increases the rate of reaction due to the energy being added to the particles present. However, in this experiment a...
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