If iodine were not available, how would you determine if starch hydrolysis had occured?

Question

If iodine were not available, how would you determine if starch hydrolysis had occured?

Answer 1

you can use benedicts solution

Answer 2

I would test for the presence of sugar.

Answer 3

A linear relationship exists with agar-starch plates when clearing zones around colonies of yeasts were plotted against enzyme levels (semilogarithm scale) produced by the same yeast strains in liquid medium.

A similar relationship between starch clearing zones and α-amylase levels from three different sources was observed. These observations suggest that the method is useful in mutant isolations, strain improvement programs, and the prediction of α-amylase activities in culture filtrates or column effluents.