Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ferment which inverts higher sugars to lower forms; specifically, a ferment which inverts cane-sugar to dextrose and levulose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals.
- noun By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biochemistry An
enzyme thatcatalyzes thehydrolysis ofsucrose intoglucose andfructose (invert sugar ); used bybees to producehoney .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose
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Examples
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The bees use an enzyme called invertase to chop it up into the two smaller sugars, one of which, by the way, tastes sweeter than sucrose.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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To do so, they must secrete an enzyme called invertase, which breaks sucrose into smaller sugars that the yeast can absorb.
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To do so, they must secrete an enzyme called invertase, which breaks sucrose into smaller sugars that the yeast can absorb.
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To do so, they must secrete an enzyme called invertase, which breaks sucrose into smaller sugars that the yeast can absorb.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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According to the researchers, the GIF1 gene is responsible for controlling the activity of the enzyme invertase, which is located in the rice plant's cell walls and converts sucrose to substances that are then used to create starch.
SciDev.Net 2008
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"The GIF1 gene is responsible for controlling the activity of the enzyme invertase, which is located in the cell wall and converts sucrose to substances that then are used to create starch," said He.
Lockergnome 2008
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The second counter, called a DNA invertase cascade, works in a similar manner, but is made from genes that code for a protein that both inactivates the original gene and primes the next for activation.
ACM TechNews 2009
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The second counter, called a DNA invertase cascade, works in a similar manner, but is made from genes that code for a protein that both inactivates the original gene and primes the next for activation.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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The yeast process (Tompson's), which makes use of the inverting power of one of the enzymes (invertase) contained in ordinary yeast, is interesting.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Mr. H.C. Brill [2] found raffinase, invertase, casease and protease in the pulp; oxidase, raffinase, casease and emulsinlike enzymes in the fresh bean; and all these six, together with diastase, in the fermented bean.
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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