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Title: How and why is pepsin important for digestion? Post by: SMK.ANOOP on Sep 12, 2012 How and why is pepsin important for digestion?
Title: How and why is pepsin important for digestion? Post by: buddhadog on Sep 12, 2012 Starts the digestion of proteins in the stomach prior to complete digestion in the small intestine.
Title: How and why is pepsin important for digestion? Post by: Buddy buddy on Sep 12, 2012 Pepsin is an enzyme which breaks down protein.
Its essential as it breaks down protein to amino acids which are the building blocks and can be used to make other things in your body like hormones, other enzymes etc. hope that helped :) Title: How and why is pepsin important for digestion? Post by: smmcmahon35 on Sep 12, 2012 "Pepsin is an enzyme that is released by the chief cells in the stomach and which degrades food proteins into peptides."
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