The Narrow Escape

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Biology Assignment - Enzymes 1. The following results were obtained from an experiment in which saliva was mixed with a starch suspension. (Saliva contains an enzyme called salivary amylase which breaks down starch to sugar (maltose)). Samples of the mixture were kept in water baths at different temperatures for 15 minutes. At the end of this time the samples were analyzed to find out how much sugar had been produced in each. The results are given below. |Temperature |0 |10 | |(ºC) | | | |1 |Hydrogen peroxide |No oxygen evolved | |2 |Hydrogen peroxide + fresh manganese dioxide |Oxygen evolved | |3 |Hydrogen peroxide + boiled manganese dioxide |Oxygen evolved | |4 |Hydrogen peroxide + fresh liver |Oxygen evolved | |5 |Hydrogen peroxide + boiled liver |No oxygen evolved | |6 |Hydrogen peroxide + fresh blood |Oxygen evolved | |7 |Hydrogen peroxide + boiled blood |No oxygen evolved | (a) What would you see happening in the test tubes as gas is evolved? (1) (b) How would you test the gas for oxygen? (1) -2- (c) Why was tube 1 set up? (1) (d) Explain carefully what has happened in tube 2. (2) (e) Explain the results, which occur in tubes 4 and 6. (2) (f) Explain why the

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