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Digestion Lab Report

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An organism needs energy to live and the energy can be earned by consuming food. And the energy is produced from digestion. Digestion is mechanical and chemical break downs of food to substances used in the body. Mechanical digestion is chewing and breaking of food into smaller pieces. However, mechanically digested food are still too large to pass through the membrane of the intestines, where the absorption happens. Then enzyme steps in and takes a big role in chemical digestion that triggers a catalytic biochemical reaction to break apart the organic compound from food into the condition that is easy to absorb all the nutrients. These enzymes used to digest food is called the hydrolysis enzymes. The purpose of this experiments are to find

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