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How does large change in temperature or pH affect proteins?

(a) They eliminate all of their essential amino acids
(b) They lose their acid sequence
(c) They come apart or lose their shape
(d) They change their amino acids into fatty acids

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Answer:

(c) They come apart or lose their shape

Step-by-step explanation:

Heat and temperature disrupt the attractions of the groups in the side chains that give the protein its characteristic shape.

(a) and (b) are wrong. The proteins do not lose their amino acids or their sequence.

(d) is wrong. The amino acids do not change into fatty acids.