If you place a small piece of a cracker on your tongue, what would you expect to happen?

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When a small piece of cracker is placed on the tongue, the salivary glands in the mouth start secreting salivary amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch into maltose, a disaccharide. So, the expected outcome is that the starch in the cracker will be converted to maltose. None of the other options provide a correct explanation of what would happen when a cracker is placed on the tongue.

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