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Answer 1

Proteases are polypeptides made up of several amino acids.

Explanation:

Proteases are enzymes means they are catalytic proteins. They specifically work during digestion in humans. These work particularly on proteins and hydrolyze the peptide bonds present between their monomers i.e amino acids in acidic environment.

An amino acid is a protein monomer which consists of an amino group`(NH_2)` and carboxyl group`(COOH)` and variant side chain`(R)` attached to an alpha carbon`(C)`.

A proteases is a polypeptide chain(protein) that is
constructed by joining of these amino acids by means of covalent bonds i.e peptide bonds. Some examples of proteases are pepsin, trypsin, chymotrypsin, papain etc

Structure of trypsin(proteases)

Structure of pepsin (protease)

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