Design an experiment that answers the question "Does amylase break down starch?" Include the question, a hypothesis, a list of materials, and a step-by - step procedure for your experiment. Also identify the control and the independent and dependent variables in your experiment.

Amylase is found in our saliva and is responsible for starting to break down the starch that we eat. So amylase is an enzyme that carries out the specific reaction of breaking down starch into a simple sugar. Starch is made up of many molecules of glucose (the simple sugar) joined in a chain.