Question

When you eat food that contains carbohydrates, you break down the carbohydrates into:

a) Glucose
b) Amino acids
c) Fatty acids
d) Nucleotides

Answer 1

When you eat carbohydrates, they are broken down into glucose. Carbohydrates are also broken down into smaller sugar molecules. Proteins are broken down into amino acids.

Step-by-step explanation:

When you eat food that contains carbohydrates, they are broken down into glucose. Glucose provides energy as ATP through metabolic pathways.

Carbohydrates are broken down into smaller sugar molecules, which are the monomers of carbohydrates.

In the process of digestion, proteins are broken down into their constituent amino acids.