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food acted up on by the enzyme for pepsin

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Q: What is the enzyme called that acts upon the substrate pepsin?
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What are the molecules that enzymes act on called?

The molecule upon which an enzyme acts is called the substrate.


An enzyme acts to?

Enzymes act on molecules called substrates. The kind of substrate depends on the shape of the enzyme.


What to enzymes do in an enzyme-substrate?

in an enzyme-substrate complex, the enzyme acts on the substrate .


The molecule on which an enzyme acts is called an?

The substance on which enzymes act are called substrates.


A specific reactant an enzyme acts upon is called the a catalyst b sucrase c active site d substrate?

D. substrate (a specific reactant acted upon by an enzyme is called the enzyme's substrate.)


Is a substrate an enzyme?

NO. The enzyme acts on the substrate. The substrate is the chemical/compound being altered by the action of the enzyme. They are NOT the same.


Substance that enzyme act upon?

They are known as reactants or substrates.


What is the substance an enzyme act upon called?

the substance that an enzyme acts upon is subtrate


What is the gastric enzyme that acts on proteins?

The proteolytic or protein eating enzyme of the stomach is called pepsin. Pepsin is secreted into the stomach as a zymogen (or inactive enzyme precursor) called pepsinogen which is converted into the active enzyme form by the hydrochloric acid and low pH in the gastric juices.


What is substrate molecule?

Is a molecule upon which an enzyme acts. e.g. hydrogen peroxide is the substrate for the enzyme catalase


What is an enzyme product complex?

The temporary complex formed after an enzyme acts on its substrate.


What is bigger - an enzyme or the substrate that it acts upon?

The Enzyme - in all Imaginable Cases!