Your lunch mainly consisted of carbohydrates in the form of starch, and you ate more than what your body required in terms of energy expenditure at that point in time. (a) Which chemical reactions...

Your lunch mainly consisted of carbohydrates in the form of starch, and you ate more than what your body required in terms of energy expenditure at that point in time. (a) Which chemical reactions would take place to digest the starch? (b) What would happen to the extra carbohydrates consumed?

A physiologist observes that the concentration of sodium inside a cell is decidedly lower than that outside the cell. She also observes that there is a small leakage of sodium into the cell. What cellular process prevents the sodium concentration gradient from disappearing? (a) osmosis, (b) diffusion, (c) primary active transport, (d) secondary active transport.