No . it has no life due to the cell theory .
The enzymes in your stomach have evolved to work most efficiently at the pH of your stomach, so changing the environment around them would cause them to not work nearly as effectively, if at all.
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The mutation in the MCR1 <em>gene </em>affected the structure and function of the MCR1 <em>protein</em>.
You didn't provide the sentence that is relevant in this case, however, generally if you would like to be objective in a sentence, you shouldn't include possible issues such as subjective thoughts, judgments, and similar things which have a negative impact on objectivity (and in reality destroy any remaining objectivity in a sentence).