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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 presence 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.

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Pepsin digests potato because it mainly contains starch 
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Answer:

Pepsine digest egg white because it mainly contains protein

Step-by-step 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.

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