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प्रश्न
Answer the following question.
Digestive action of pepsin comes to a stop when food reaches small intestine. Justify.
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उत्तर
Pepsin acts in acidic medium thus it is active in stomach. There is alkaline condition in the small intestine. pH of small intestine is very high for pepsin to work. Therefore, pepsin gets denatured in the small intestine.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Identify the enzyme responsible for conversion of starch to maltose.
Identify the correct contents of Gastric juice.
Enterokinase is present in ____________.
Identify the enzyme 'x' present in intestinal juice.
\[\ce{Trypsinogen ->['x'][ alkaline medium]Trypsin}\]
HCI reduces the pH of stomach resulting in digestion of proteins by ____________.
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Which enzyme is/ are required to catalyze the following reaction?
Nucleic acids → Sugar + Base
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| Column-l | Column-II | ||
| i. | Enterokinase | a. | Absent in adults |
| ii. | Rennin | b. | Digests carbohydrates |
| iii. | Pancreatic Amylase | c. | Converts trypsinogen to trypsin |
| iv. | Lipase | d. | Hydrolyze fat molecules into fatty acids monoglycerides |
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