Question

1.Why do bacteria need to hydrolyze starch outside of the cell in order to use it as a food source? Pls. give me more clarification with this, Thank you

Answer 1

Bacteria need to hydrolyze stanch outside of the cell in onder to use it as a food source because starch molecules are too lange to enter the bacterial cell and .. bacteria can't ase starch directly Bog its metabolic activities. So, bacteria Secrete excoenzymes Chydrolytic enzymes) which degrades stanch into smaller .. subunits like flucose outside the bacterial cell. These smaller subunits can be .. directly used by bacteria as food source. Exoenzyme & It is also called as extra- cellalan enzyme. These are secreted by cell but functions outside the cell. These enzymes are often involved in the breakdown of larger macromolecules. The break down of these macromolecues enable their constituents to pass through the cell membrane and enter into the cell . CS Scanned wi CamScanner