Water is needed to break the hydrogen bonds in the starch aggregates, allowing ready access to stored energy.
Increasing the temperature might cause proteins within an enzyme to denature. This will cause the enzyme to stop working properly.
Phylum. The classification system goes: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Anything that shares a class also share anything above it.
The iodine can change the color of the starch to a deep blue to black color.