KROK 1 2011 – Question 150 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
A newborn develops dyspepsia after the milk feeding. When the milk is substituted by the glucose solution the dyspepsia symptoms disappear. The newborn has the subnormal activity of the following enzyme:
- A. Invertase
- B. Maltase
- C. Amylase
- D. Lactase
- E. Isomaltase
Hint
Compare what the milk contains with what the glucose solution contains, and ask which digestive enzyme would be needed only for the former.
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