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what is pepsin and polypeptides and renin?

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Answered by illo
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pepsin is the chief digestive enzyme in the stomach, which breaks down proteins into polypeptides

polypeptide is a linear organic polymer consisting of a large number of amino-acid residues bonded together in a chain, forming part of (or the whole of) a protein molecule.
Answered by Anonymous
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Gastric juice has pepsin, lipase, and rennin in it. Pepsin is secreted as pepsinogen in an inert form which is activated by hydrochloric acid. Pepsin metabolises proteins into peptones. ... Rennin is a proteolytic enzyme which is useful in milk coagulation.

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