Question

8. Extend your thinking: Hydrolysis of the carbohydrates you eat begins in your mouth as you chew. How do you think this process might be affected if a person’s salivary glands were unable to produce saliva, which is mostly composed of water?

Answer 1

Slow down the break down of carbohydrate.

Step-by-step explanation:

Hydrolysis of the carbohydrates will be affected if a person’s salivary glands were unable to produce saliva because saliva has enzyme that speed up the digestion rate of carbohydrates. If the saliva did not produced by the organism's salivary glands, the hydrolysis or break down of the carbohydrates did not occur in the mouth and as a result the body takes more time for the complete decomposition or break down of carbohydrates.