Digestion begins here. Your teeth grind the nshima into smaller pieces (mechanical digestion). Meanwhile, your salivary glands produce saliva , which contains the enzyme amylase . Amylase starts breaking down starch (a complex carbohydrate) into maltose (a simple sugar).
: Classification of living organisms, binomial nomenclature, and the five-kingdom system. zase biology textbook grade 10-12
Understand the key terminology (e.g., enzyme, diffusion, allele, ecosystem) 1.2.1. Digestion begins here