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That is a proteolytic enzyme. Name of the enzyme is pepsin. It is secreted as inactive pepsinogen, which become active when it comes in contact with the hydrochloric acid, in the stomach.
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Where is most of your food digested?
Most of the food is digested in your stomach, where the stomach muscles contract to squeeze the food into a thick, runny liquid.
What type of foods are digested by the small intestine?
Proteins are digested in your stomach. Pepsinogen is secreted by the chief cells. Pepsinogen is converted to pepsin by hydrochloric acid. This pepsin brakes the peptide bond of proteins to form polypeptides.
What happens protein after its swallowed?
It gets digested by your stomach. Then your body absorbs its nutrients then it will pass into your intestine and then will be gotten rid of by going to the toilet.
Difference between bolus and chyme?
chyme is the formation of semifluid mass of partly digested food in stomach by physical digestion. it enters from stomach to duodenun through pyloric spincter. Type your answer here... chyle is milky fluid which is completely digested in deodenum.it gets absorbed by the blood.
What is needed to digest proteins?
Mainly, the enzyme Protease breaks up proteins into amino-acids. Also, proteins contain nitrogen which the body cannot use. Water is required to remove this nitrogen, bonding with if to form ammonia. This is subsequently secreted in urine.
What part of the body is protein digested in?
Protein is digested in the stomach and small intestine.
The part of alimentary canal where protein is digested?
Protein is digested both in the stomach (by pepsin and trypsin) and in the small intestine.
What is the Main organic molecule digested in stomach?
Protein is the main macromolecule that is broken down in the stomach.
Where does the majority of protein digestion happen?
Protein mostly gets digested in the stomach, in the stomach is where all the nutrients get sifted like out.
Which food substances would be digested by the enzymes in the stomach?
protein
What substance in the stomach helps digestion?
The Stomach is where Proteins are digested. This needs an acid environment and enzymes like pepsin. The digested proteins are not absorbed into the body by the stomach - this happens further down the alimentary tract.
What type of nutrient is digested by pepsin in the stomach?
Pepsin in important for the digestion of protein. The enzyme is created in the stomach and breaks down the collagen protein.
How protein is digested?
Protein is digested by resting
Where does protein digestion ends?
lol, im fixing it The cells in the lining of your stomach release enzymes and hydrochloric acid
Why enzyme pepsin works only in the stomach?
Protein digestion occurs in stomach only because it is safe for the body, as stomach has mucous secretions which prevents self digestion of stomach muscles by PEPSIN (enzyme for protein digestion) :)
How is protein digested in the alimentary canal?
Protein is firstly broken in the stomach through Chloridric acid. In the small intestine, the protein is absorbed into the blood stream through the inner wall of the small intestine.
What are the smaller molecules made when protein carbohydrate and protein are digested?
Protein is digested to form amino acids. Lipids are digested to fatty acids. Carbohydrates are digested to glucose and other simple sugars.
