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MHT CET · BIOLOGY · STD 11 - 14. Human Nutrition

In the following process of digestion, the enzymes at location 'X' and 'Y' are respectively.
Proteins \(\xrightarrow{ X }\) proteoses and peptones \(\xrightarrow{ Y }\) dipeptides.

  1. A Chymotrypsin and pepsin
  2. B Pepsin and trypsin
  3. C Ptyalin and pepsin
  4. D Trypsin and di-peptidase
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(B) Pepsin and trypsin

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Pepsin breaks proteins into proteoses and peptones, while trypsin breaks peptones into dipeptides. Ptyalin acts on polysaccharides and dipeptidase breaks dipeptides into amino acids.