REPORT QUESTIONS – OUT OF 40 MARKS

1. Which sample is the cow milk? The soy milk? The rice milk? How do you know? (9 marks)

2. What is lactose (i.e. type of sugar)? What are the names and types of sugars that make up lactose?
What is the name of the bond between these sugars? (5 marks)

3. What happens chemically when lactose is broken down by lactase? (5 marks)

4. Discuss how specificity is important with relation to the lactase and lactose and why the enzyme
cannot break down the other sugars (i.e. Glucose and Sucrose). (5 marks)

5. Under which condition(s) did the enzymes become denatured in the lab? (4 marks)

6. Under which condition(s) that were tested in this lab did the enzyme become temporarily
inactivated? Why (Hint: Remember Basic Chemistry and Physics principles, i.e. molecules and their
characteristics)? (6 marks)

7. In which condition(s) did the glucose level rise after the waiting period? Why did this occur? (6
marks)