Which one of the following hydrolyses proteins into peptides?

Erepsin

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Rennin

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Pepsin

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Lipase

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Solution

The correct option is B Pepsin
Proteolytic enzyme also called protease or pepsin, any of a group of enzyme that breaks the long chainlike molecule of proteins into shorter fragments (peptides) and eventually into their components, amino acids.
So, option C is the correct option.

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