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Q: Is pepsin a digestive enzyme
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Is pepsin a carbohydrate?

No, pepsin is a protein digestive enzyme.


What digestive enzyme does not function in high pH?

Pepsin


How do you xxplain what pepsin is?

Pepsin is a digestive enzyme in the stomach, breaking down proteins into polypeptides.


What is the Pepsi's stock abbreviation?

Pepsi - named from the digestive enzyme pepsin.


What is is The chief digestive enzyme in the stomach is .?

Its PEPSIN. Pepsin is an enzyme that breaks down proteins into smaller peptides (that is, a protease). It is produced in the stomach and is one of the main digestive enzymes in the digestive systems of humans and many other animals, where it helps digest the proteins in food.


What digestive digests proteins?

digestive juices consit of digestive enzymes (strictly says, proteases) such as renin, pepsin, trypsin and other molecules that helps in digesting proteins


What enzyme is present in the stomach?

Pepsin is activated by acid in the stomach and breaks proteins -- including those in meat, dairy, eggs and vegetable sources.


What enzyme is in the stomach?

The enzyme present in the stomach is pepsin. It breaks down the proteins in food while in your stomach and helps with the digestive process.


The most important digestive enzyme in gastric juice is?

Pepsin - it breaks proteins into peptide fragments


Why does the digestive enzyme pepsin need to enjoy acidity?

because it has to work in the stomach which is very acidic.


What digestive enzyme would most affected in people who are unable to produce hydrochloric acid?

pepsin


What do the letters sipenp spell?

They spell "pepsin" (a digestive enzyme in the stomach, or an unrelated wintergreen flavoring).