g B. PROTEINS 1. Name the gastric enzyme that initiates protein digestion. Explain how this enzyme is activated. Pepsin is the gastric enzyme that initiates protein digestion. It is activated by stomach acid into the active form. It then breaks down the protein in our food into smaller particles like peptide fragments and amino acids. 2. Name the ducts in the pathway by which pancreatic juice flows from the pancreas to the duodenum. The Pancreatic duct. 3. Describe 3 ways the body uses these amino acids..

1-the gastric enzyme is pepsin, which is why it is a peptidase, since it catalyzes the binding of proteins within the stomach. Its activation method is the acidic pH of the stomach.

2-Pancreatic juice is a juice that hydrolyzes and helps the digestion of proteins or peptides, since this is the EXOCRINE substance of the pancreas, this juice being exocrine is poured into the main pancreatic duct of the pancreas and then through the choledochol in the blister of toilet at intestinal level.

3-amino acids are used by the body for hormonal, transport, and structural purposes. It also has other functions such as the conformation of the same DNA, but there are 3 that must be answered.

Explanation:

Proteins have structures or junctions that are quaternary, tertiary, binary, and primary.

the easiest to degrade with the quaternary and tertiary while the other two do not.

It is important that you know this fact why these structures are ordered from the outside to the inside or inside the protein, the outermost ones are the quaternary ones and the innermost ones are the primary ones.

A protein ceases to be protein and becomes free and separated amino acids when it reaches the heart of the protein and breaks the primary bond, or the sea the strongest and most difficult to break.

These amino acids have multiple functions but they can be said which, when united, are the unit that makes up proteins or peptides.