All but One of the Following Is a Function of the Low

question 129

Multiple Choice

All but one of the following is a function of the low pH found in the stomach.Select the description below that does not reflect a role of stomach acid.

• A) The stomach's acid catabolically breaks down food stuffs in preparation for absorption.
• B) Stomach acid denatures proteins making the poly peptide chain more accessible to pepsin digestive enzymes.
• C) Many potentially harmful bacteria will be prevented entry to the small intestine by stomach acid.
• D) Low pH converts pepsinogen to its active form of pepsin, preventing the protease enzyme from digesting the cells that produce it.

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Definitions:

Symmetrical

Symmetrical refers to a situation where two halves of a whole are identical, mirror images of each other, maintaining balance and proportion.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the individual values in a dataset deviate from the mean of the dataset.

Statistically Significant

A term indicating that the likelihood of an observed result occurring by chance is low, often used in hypothesis testing.

p < .05

A statistical significance level indicating that the probability of the observed data occurring by chance is less than 5%.