1. In the mouth, salivary glands respond to the thought or presence of food by producing a fluid containing mucus and the enzymes amylase and maltase.

2. In carbohydratelang=en terms the difference between Amylose and maltose is that Amylose is (carbohydrate) the soluble form of starch (the insoluble form being amylopectin) that is a linear polymer of glucose while maltose is (carbohydrate) a disaccharide, c 12 h 22 o 11 formed from the digestion of starch by amylase; is converted to glucose by maltase