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Good question. The standard allows for three levels of header: header, subheader and sub-subheader (implemented as Bold text - use and </P&gt. You want to have superheader, header and subheader. THere's no official way of doing this. One possible approach would be to have the text "Putting Enzymes to Work - " included at the start of each Header. But this is clumsy. Alternatively, you could demote all the headers by one level, but I don't like this approach.

Ask yourself, do you really need that extra 'superheader'?

FB' says very little about the action of enzymes, which is the essence of my article. I need to mirror something of what is in FB's Entries to contextualise the content of mine.AHowever, his Entries are hyperlinked from mine.

I think I do, so I'll leave it like that for the time being.

FB will be delighted that you've linked to 'his' entries.

<MI've put right those typos. Gnomon.

I'll have a bit more of a think as to whether I need to change the phraseology of fungi being a group of plants. To the lay person they are plants, and I'm wondering whether it's a bit pompous/pedantic to specify them as a separatate phylum.

It seems a bit inconsistent for h2g2 to require punctuation be removed from things like i.e. and B.C., but to be inserted into things like 1000 years!

forgot FB is female! (Only just realised the point of your post!)

P.S. I haven't forgotten/ignored what you said about the 'lock and key' mechanism. I 'm just waiting for some 'quality time' to think how to combine these two paras.

More comments.

Content:

?-amylase -- is that actually the name of the enzyme or is it something you've left out?

I thought the stuff from the calf's stomach was called 'rennet', not 'rennin'.

Plants are not used today in Scottish cheesemaking - this is not an entry about Scotland, so why mention it?

"The application of enzymes in these processes is a combination of economic and cosmetic"
There's something left out at the end of that sentence. Words missing, maybe?

The sentence about the domestic cat seems to have been misplaced.


Phrasing:

The process of cheesemaking, like beer making, is a complicated one --> Like beer making, it is a complicated one
(The previous sentence started with "the process of cheesemaking" as well).

h2g2 style:

H.S. Paine --> HS Paine

Typos:

at about 4000 BC --> in about 4000 BC.
pharoah --> pharaoh (a few places)

Ancient Egyptian life. --> Ancient Egyptian life.

Akhenaton --> Akhenaten

Queen Nefertiti. the step-mother of the boy-pharoah, Tutankhamun is believed -->
Queen Nefertiti, the step-mother of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, is believed

soaking the in water --> soaking the grain in water

15 degrees centigrade --> 15°C

maltases)convert --> maltases) convert
flour. gliadin --> flour: gliadin
throughout the World --> throughout the world
enablng --> enabling
thrownaway --> thrown away
This would then hang this out to air-dry --> He would then hang this out to air-dry
sugars)occurring --> sugars) occurring
primaryt cell wall --> primary cell wall
The latter group include --> The latter group includes
lyases.Pectinesterases --> lyases. Pectinesterases
partiucularly --> particularly
niger.The --> niger. The
liquid centre ius placed --> liquid centre is placed
liquid-center --> liquid-centre

I'm not finished proof reading yet, either!

It's amazing what one doesn't notice oneself (one only sees what one wishes to see - hence the benefit of PR. I'll work through those.
However, just to clarify a few points:

?-amylase: This is supposed to be alpha (Greek symbol) amylase, but I haven't learned how to do this yet. Hopefully someone will tell me.

Likewise '15 degrees centigrade --> 15°C'.



The part of the calf's stomach that contains the glands is called 'rennet', the enzyme is 'rennin'.

Plants are not used today in Scottish cheesemaking - this is not an entry about Scotland, so why mention it? Because the article I obtained this info. from was 'Scottish'. Not being an expert on this, I don't know what the situation in the rest of the UK is. However, I'll re-phrase this bit to reflect that.

"The application of enzymes in these processes is a combination of economic and cosmetic"
There's something left out at the end of that sentence. Words missing, maybe? This was Pantherlady's phrasing. I think if I incorporate a 'the after 'comnination of...', this should read more elegantly.

You can do an alpha by putting in the code &alpha;

The semicolon is part of the code.

You can do a degree sign the same way &deg; or you can just type it Alt+0176 or cut-and-paste it from my posting.

Perhaps you can shed some light on this. My neighbour told me never ever to eat kiwi's with milk products. He said eaten together the milk and kiwi form a big undigistable clump in the stomach. The gullible bird I am, I followed his advise so I don't mix kiwi with yoghurt.
Is my neighbour right in advising me as he did?

Are you talking about kiwis or kiwi fruit?

Hmm, I've not come across that one before, Krabatt. Try Googling 'kiwi fruit, milk' and see what you come up with.

Well, here's a recipe that actually appears to combine the two; so I can't believe there's a real problem - unless your neighbour really was referring to the feathered variety!.

Now don't tell me there exists also a Kiwi-bird. Al right, I google it up.

Oh yes, and they are going extinct if it weren't for the Bank of New Zealand.


As for the enzyme my neighbour spoke the truth, for once.

Here it is: http://www.innvista.com/health/foods/fruits/kiwi.htm

"...a digestive enzyme similar to that found in papaya and pineapple. It cannot be placed in jello as its enzymes will prevent setting. These same enzymes will also curdle milk so they cannot be used in making ice-cream. Cooking will destroy the enzymes."

Googgeling around I found many recipes with kiwi combined with milk. .

Ah yes, I do remember that now - that it prevents jellies setting; not that it produces an indigestible mass.

I came across it a year or so ago when we had some surplus (unfeathered!) kiwis and were thinking of making a jelly
containing them. The enzyme in them and pineapples is called bromelain. This is why a slice of pineapple is often placed on top of gammon steak - to tenderise it. I intended to put this into my Entry but totally forgot. Perhaps I'll do it now and also mention the kiwi fruit krabatt.

Yes but look, it says this enzyme curdles milk!
And that cooking will distroy this enzyme. So to my reading I can only use cooked kiwi fruit in my Yoghurt.

About 2000 different enzymes --> About 2,000 different enzymes
causes lipid to accumulate --> causes lipids to accumulate
heart attack' --> heart attack
muscle.Streptokinase --> muscle. Streptokinase
colloqially --> colloquially
but which essential in leukaemic cells --> but which is essential in leukaemic cells
almost 6000 cases --> almost 6,000 cases
deoxyribonuclease', or DNA'ase for short hydrolyses -->
deoxyribonuclease, or 'DNAase' for short, hydrolyses (I think)
for 2.5 mg enzyme --> for 2.5mg of enzyme
can develop resitance --> can develop resistance
aminotransferase, leak into the --> aminotransferase leak into the

More later.

Yes, that'a correct
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