Biology A-Level
Digestion and absorption of products
What Digestion and absorption of products means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Digestion and absorption of products
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Reference: OCR
Extracellular digestion breaks large food molecules into smaller soluble molecules that can be absorbed, while the enzyme remains in the gut lumen.
Topics that use Digestion and absorption of products
- Enzymes (OCR A-Level)
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- Activation energy and enzyme–substrate complexes
- Cellular metabolism
- Coenzyme
- Cofactor
- Competitive inhibitors
- Effect of missing cofactors on reaction rate
- Effect of substrate concentration on inhibition
- Enzyme specificity and active-site complementarity
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