Is it the same enzyme that digests animal protein vs plant protein?
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proteins are made of amino acids, there are 20 of them. only 20. in all plants and all animals. so in a way, the answer to your question is yes, plant protein and animal protein are digested in the same way.\nhowever there isn't just one enzyme that does this, there are many that all work together. each one can cut a protein at a specific point, depending on the amino acids at that point. \nhope that helps!
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Formalin doesnt directly bind the protein, it catalyzes proteins to bind each other, making a large protein-polymer structure.  There isnt any way of reversing this other than to use proteases, which will merely chop the protein up.
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only one animal has the ability to digest cellulose.  that is the termite.  other animals need to break the cell-walls to digest the inside of the plant cell, whereas the now-broken cellulose wall passes through the body undigested (fiber).  corn is a cellulose shell, with a pulpy inside.  if you want the corn to stop showing up in your poop, make sure you chew your corn.
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There are enzymes which breakdown the fiberous connections between protein molecules, thus making the meat tender.
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Plant and animal cells are alike in that they both have cell(plasma) membranes, nuclei, and vacuoles. Plant cells are different in that they also contain chloroplasts and cell walls. The vacuoles in plant cells tend to be bigger than in animal cells.
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Hey \n  every year i do a science fair project on plants and last year i learned how it happens.  First of all it is called absorbtion  Next, the water is sucked up by the ruts when the plant is looking for nutrients. then it takes the water to a different part of the (stomach) of the plant and it eats the water.\n  Hope i helped
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The human digestion system disrupts the cell walls and membranes of the leafy vegetables allowing the nutrients to be released and later absorbed.\n\nPart of this process is physical (chewing) and part is chemical (both enzymes and hydrochloric acid in the mouth and stomach).\n\nThe cellulose in the cell walls passes through the system undigested as fiber or "roughage."  This is true for other plant materials like corn hulls, not just green leafy vegetables.
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I'll give some examples and some brief explanations right here:\n\nSubstrate = A substrate is a compound that binds to an enzyme and is converted to a product.  In other words, a substrate is something an enzyme digests.  Anything that is digested is the substrate.\n\nEnzyme = Enzymes are globular proteins, larger in size compared to their substrates.  In other words, they are made up of proteins and digests substrates.\n\nNow, enzymes are 'digesters' and one kind of enzyme can only bind to one kind of substrate.  (e.g. Enzyme A can only bind to Substrate A and not Substrate B)   \n\nLactose = substrate\nLactase = enzyme\n\nHow do I know???\n\nMost substrates have an 'O' to replace the 'A' in Enzymes.\n\nNow, what happens after the enzymes bind/digest to the substrate?\n\nIt converts the substrate into smaller products.  In the Maltose case, maltOse gets digested by maltAse into glucose.  So, glucose in the final product\n\nillustrated by:\n\n``````````(is digested by)\n``````````````Maltase\nMaltose    ---------------->  Glucose\n(substrate)``(enzyme)``(Product)\n\n\nAnother illustrated example:\n\nProtein as the substrate.\n\n````````(is digested by)\n```````````````Pepsin\nProtein      ------------------>  Peptones/Large Polypeptides\n(Substrate)  ```(Enzyme) ````````````````(Product)
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The activity of an enzyme is tested by measuring how quickly it degrades the substrate or how quickly product is formed in an enzyme-catalyzed reaction.  This can be measured using spectrophotometry.\n\nHowever, you cannot compare these activities in samples with different protein concetrations because the increased enzyme activity may only be due to the fact that there are more enzymes contained in the sample.  Therefore, you divide the activity by the total amount of protein in the sample.  This way you can compare the activities of different samples and get an idea of how well the enzyme is functioning in different environments.\n\nAs for the calculations, just asking me to do them is giving me nightmares about my biochemsitry course I just completed.  If you already have the activity, you divide it by the total mass of protein present in the sample to get the specific activity.  If you are doing a purification procedure, the more you purify the sample, the less protein will be present and as long as the enzyme of interest remains in the assay samples the specific activity should go up.
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Saliva in the mouth digests carbohydrates (starch). Pepsin (in stomach) digest proteins and convert them into peptides (amino acids).
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Amylose is readily digested by enzymes (amylase), which separates it into monosaccharides to be used in ATP production.\n\nCellulose, however, cannot be digested by animals, and is therefore quite useless. (termites are known to digest cellulose in the wood they eat, but that is actually done by symbiotic microbes)\n\nThe difference between amylose and cellulose is in the bonding between monomers - amylose uses alpha glycosidic linkages and rolls up into a ball, and cellulose uses beta linkages and form long, tough strands.
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Foods high in fiber (like veggies) produce more gas as your body processes them. Plants also contain fewer (and different) amino acids than animals (that is, less protein), so the gaseous waste produced by digestion has less nitrogen and fewer stinky nitrogenous compounds.
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Well,the following processes take place:\n\nfirst of all you eat the plant material( cooked or uncooked.)mechanical digestion takes place in ur mouth i.e. the break down of food by teeth.then chemical digestion takes place;enzyme like salivary amylase breakdown starch into maltose.saliva is mixed with the food and formed into a bolus.then the food is swallowed.the bolus moves down the oesophagus(the food pipe) to the stomach.In the stomach,protein digestion take place(enzymes like protease breakdown protein into amino acids).then the food is carried t the small intestine where protein and carbohydrates are further broken down.Then the small soluble molecules pass through the villi into the blood stream where the nutrients are absorbed into the blood and thus carried to various parts of body.\n\nYa,I know my answer is long....but can't help it.Sorry!
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The human digestion tract is not built to digest animal protein constantly.  More people should go vegetarian.  Not only is it better for the environment, it is better for your health.  It takes much less toll on the land to grow plants than it takes to have a pasture of cattle.  Your risks for so many diseases are drastically reduced if you include primarily vegetarian protein sources (heart disease, certain cancers).  Hunting should only be done if it is a necessity to survive.  This should not be done simply for sport.  There are so many alternatives to leather and fur these days that are fashionable and less costly and less barbaric than wearing dead animal skins.
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plant cells have vacuoles and chloroplasts while animal cells dont. plant cells synthesize their own foods while animal cells dont.\n\nribosomes are the organelles that synthesize proteins using RNA from the nucleus.\n\nI just cant seem to remember what the answer of the third question was.
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We get a number of nutrients from animals, but the primary one is protein.  The stomach breaks these down with a digestive enzyme called pepsin -- along with hydrochloric acid.  The resulting pieces are called amino acids.  These amino acids are absorbed into the blood at the small intestines, and carried in the blood to the body tissues.  The cells at these tissues contain the information necessary to reassemble these amino acids back into body proteins. This process is called protein synthesis.\nProteins can also be converted to energy by first reducing them into amino acids, then removing a specific part of the amino acid (called amine groups).  The resulting compound is now glucose.  The process is called deaminization.  The glucose can then be converted to energy in a process called cellular respiration.
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The ability to breakdown cellulose is not possessed by mammals. Typically, this ability is possessed only by certain bacteria (which have specific enzymes) like Cellulomonas etc, and which are often the flora on the gut walls of ruminants like cows and sheep, or by fungi, which in nature are responsible for cycling of nutrients. The enzymes utilized to cleave the glycosidic linkage in cellulose are glycoside hydrolases including endo-acting cellulases and exo-acting glucosidases. Such enzymes are usually secreted as part of multienzyme complexes that may include dockerins and cellulose binding modules.