When you chew carbohydrate-rich foods, carbohydrase enzymes, such as amylase ... an experiment to prove what carbohydrase enzymes break carbohydrates down into. Bread contains starch, which ...

When you chew carbohydrate-rich foods, carbohydrase enzymes, such as amylase ... an experiment to prove what carbohydrase enzymes break carbohydrates down into. Bread contains starch, which ...

The study team focused on a gene called AMY1, which allows humans to identify and begin breaking down complex carbohydrate ...

“The authors finding that an increased copy number of the amylase gene, which results in a greater ability to break down ...

Humans are among a few species with multiple copies of certain genes that help us break down starch ... of the gene for amylase — an enzyme that’s the first step in starch digestion ...