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8. Describe the digestive role of chymotrypsin. Which two other digestive enzymes of the same category are secreted by its source gland?

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Chymotrypsinogen is an inactive enzyme that gets activated into chymotrypsin by the action of enzyme trypsin present in the pancreatic juice. Chymotrypsin, when activated plays an important role in the breakdown of the partially- hydrolysed proteins into peptides

The other digestive enzymes of the same category, are trypsinogen and carboxypeptidase. These are also secreted by the same source-gland, pancreas. Trypsinogen gets activated via enterokinase into trypsin. 

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