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Digestion and Absorption
Proteins
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Pepsinogen in the stomach activated to pepsin in the presence of
HCl
, pepsin acts on
proteins
changing it to
peptides
Trypsinogen activated to
trypsin
by
enterokinase
in the small intestine, acts on proteins
changing it to
peptides
Chymotrypsinogen
activated to chymotrypsin by trypsin, acts on
proteins
changing it to
peptides
Peptidases
act on
peptides
changing these to
amino acids