0 an enzyme (= a chemical substance made by living cells) in saliva, plants, and in the pancreas that helps change starch into sugar --
1 an enzyme (= substance that causes chemical change) that helps to change starch (= substance found in plants) into sugar --
Aliquots ranging from 10 to 80 ml of gland extract (for amylase and protease activity respectively) were used for the enzyme assays.
Genetic variability of inducing factors of amylase and fitness.
The results of an analysis of variance showed that both second- and third-chromosome components are responsible for genetic variations in amylase activity and inducibility.
The amylase activity in normal food may be affected by both induction and repression.
The average activity of amylase for the second-chromosome substitution lines was lower than that for the third-chromosome substitution lines.
The function of the genetic factor(s) on the third chromosome is expected to be the induction of amylase activity in induced environments.
High correlations for the secondchromosome substitution lines and low correlations for the third-chromosome substitution lines were observed for amylase specific activities in different media.
Increased concentrations of salivary gland extracts led to increased amylase activity (fig. 2).
