Question

digestion of carbohydrate produce glucose. describe the absorption of glucose.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Saliva contains the enzyme, salivary amylase. This enzyme breaks the bonds between the monomeric sugar units of disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and starches. The salivary amylase breaks down amylose and amylopectin into smaller chains of glucose, called dextrins and maltose.

Absorption of glucose entails transport from the intestinal lumen, across the epithelium and into blood. ... glucose binds and the transporter reorients in the membrane such that the pockets holding sodium and glucose are moved inside the cell. sodium dissociates into the cytoplasm, causing glucose binding to destabilize...