Answer:
B) It breaks down polysaccharides such as starch.
Explanation:
Polysaccharides are long chains of monosaccharides like glucose joined together with glycosidic linkages. While plants can simply make glucose via photosynthesis, animals rely on glucose sourced from their diet. In animals, glucose is stored as glycogen; however, plant storage polysaccharides like starch are regularly broken down through digestion using enzymes.
Enzymes are proteins which catalyze chemical reactions like the breakdown of large polysaccharides. Alpha amylase, an enzyme produced in the pancreas, is also found in human saliva; it catalyzes the hydrolysis, or breakdown of starch into glucose. Amylase acts on polysaccharides bonds at random points along the chain by splitting the α 1-4 glycosidic bonds. This produces maltose, dextrin and glucose; this glucose is used in ATP synthesis via <em>respiration, ethyl alcohol fermentation and lactic fermentation</em>.
Answer:
Dolphins, Tuna, and Jellyfish are known as the secondary consumers of sea life and prey on the primary consumers for a food source.
Explanation:
Primary consumers such as Sea turtles, Manatees, and Zoo Plankton rely on the producers seaweed, plankton, and diatoms for food source. They are also known as the oceans herbivores.
Answer:
Algae and fungi are biotic: temperature and rainfall are abiotic
Explanation:
Abiotic factors include non-living environmental factors like wind, temperature and light, and chemical elements. These affect the biotic, living factors and shape their survival. For example high temperatures hinder the survival of organisms, and a lack of rainfall creates drought conditions where biotic factors die off due to food scarcity.
Biotic factors comprise the most important environmental components; bacteria, plants, animals, and fungi. The interaction between these living organisms can be classed into three groups; producers, like algae, plants, trees and grasses; consumers, which are plants that eat other animals or producers; and decomposers, that break down dead organic matter into soil.
Answer:
The idea of spontaneous generation was disproved by Francesco Redi.
Explanation:
- Spontaneous generation is a theory that states that living organism can generate from an inanimate object.
- In, 1668, Francesco Redi demonstrate an experiment explaining the theory of spontaneous generation by using meat.He noticed that flies laid eggs on meat which was kept open and maggots developed.
- He took three pieces of meat to do the experiment.
- The first piece of meat was kept open and as usual maggot development takes place.
- With the 2nd piece of meat,he covered it with a piece of cheesecloth and noticed that,flies lay eggs on the cheesecloth but when he removed the cloth,maggot did't form.
- Next, he took a piece of paper and cover the meat piece, and he noticed that flies did't lay any eggs and thus no maggots formed.
Answer:
Cnidarians.
Explanation:
Cnidarians are known as the marine invertebrates, and also called as Coelenterata, they belong to phylum Cnidaria. Cnidarians include sea fans, sea pens, corals, hydra, jellyfish, and sea anemones. They belong to four classes: Anthozoa, Cubozoa, Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa.
Cnidarian captures its prey with the help of nematocysts which are thread-like tubes, coiled, and sticky. Nematocysts contain toxin by the release of this toxin corals hunt their prey, and even while they are stuck to the ocean floor.
