19. Since pepsin is a gastric
enzyme does it have an acid
or basic optimum pH? What
happens to pepsin when it
passes into the duodenum?

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acts within the stomach so its
optimum pH is around 2, an pH.
When the enzyme passes into the
duodenum it meets a pH and its
enzyme activity ends.