Assume you have been chewing a piece of bread for 5 or 6 minutes. How would you expect its taste to change during this time? Why?

What will be an ideal response?


The bread will begin to taste sweet as some of the starch is broken down into sugar due to the chemical digestion of carbohydrates by salivary amylase.

Anatomy & Physiology

You might also like to view...

Glands are formed from ________.

A. epithelial tissue B. connective tissue C. muscle tissue D. nerve tissue

Anatomy & Physiology

List the four types of autorhythmic cells that drive the heartbeat. Draw a sketch of the heart and indicate the location of each type of cell.

What will be an ideal response?

Anatomy & Physiology

Information about the location of a given stimulus on or in the body is conveyed by the same mechanism that conveys information about stimulus intensity, namely action potential frequency.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

Anatomy & Physiology

Compare and contrast the way in which lipophilic and hydrophilic hormones affect their target cells. Include in your answer the type of receptor used, the major events promoted inside the cell after these hormone attach to their specific receptors, and the relative amount of time required to see the effect of hormone binding

What will be an ideal response?

Anatomy & Physiology