A student conducted an experiment to test the effect of the digestive enzyme pepsin on cooked egg white and potato in the presen

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A student conducted an experiment to test the effect of the digestive enzyme pepsin on cooked egg white and potato in the presen

ce of hydrochloric acid at a pH of 1. Which could be a probable inference?
Pepsin digests egg white because it mainly contains protein.
Pepsin digests potato because it mainly contains starch.
Pepsin digests egg white because it mainly contains fat.

Biology

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Anon25 [30] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-18T06:54:56+03:00

Anon25 [30]2 years ago

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Pepsin digests potato because it mainly contains starch

Norma-Jean [14] · Answer 2 · 2022-08-18T08:00:52+03:00

Answer:

Pepsine digest egg white because it mainly contains protein

Explanation:

Pepsine is an enzyme that digest proteins, it will react just in an acidic environment and it will react to separate the peptids that conform the proteins. The egg is one of the food with a big quantity of protein.