During the process of digestion, the proteins present in food materials are hydrolysed to amino acids. The two enzymes involved in the process
\[\text{Proteins}\xrightarrow{\text{Enzyme}\left( \text{A} \right)}\text{Polypeptides}\] \[\xrightarrow{\text{Enzyme}\left( \text{B} \right)}\text{Amino acids,}\] are respectively
A.
amylase and maltase
B.
diastase and lipase
C.
pepsin and trypsin
D.
invertase and zymase
Answer :
pepsin and trypsin
Solution :
In the process of digestion the proteins present in food material are hydrolysed to amino acid. In this process two enzymes pepsin and trypsin are involved as follows :
Releted MCQ Question on Organic Chemistry >> Biomolecules
Releted Question 1
The pair of compounds in which both the compounds give positive test with Tollen’s reagent is