Skip to content
MathsGenie logo
Open app

Course home

  1. GCSE
  2. Biology Edexcel
  3. Question bank

Enzymes

EasyMediumHard
123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839
Question 16

An experiment was set up to investigate the digestion of starch by the enzyme amylase. Visking tubing containing a mixture of starch and active amylase was suspended in a beaker of distilled water maintained at 37∘C37^\circ\text{C}37∘C as shown below:

Diagram of enzyme digestion and diffusion using Visking tubing

Describe the chemical tests a student could use to determine whether starch and reducing sugars (such as maltose) are present in the beaker water after 30 minutes.

[4]

Enzymes Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Biology
  3. /Enzymes