You Eat Eggs for Breakfast and Return in the Evening

question 32

Multiple Choice

You eat eggs for breakfast and return in the evening to dirty dishes with "dried on" yellow streaks.After soaking awhile,the egg yolk protein molecules easily "wash off." What happened?

• A)Heating denatured the egg protein molecules,hydrolysis reactions then formed bonds in the dried egg yolk,and soaking in water eventually resulted in condensation reactions where water broke these bonds
• B)Heating denatured the egg protein molecules,unorganized condensation reactions formed bonds in the drying egg,and soaking in water resulted in hydrolysis reactions where water broke these bonds
• C)Egg monomers were fused to become one polymer,which was easily dissolved by water back into monomers
• D)Addition of water converted organic molecules into inorganic molecules

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Definitions:

Warm Receptors

Sensory receptors in the skin that detect increases in temperature, contributing to the sensation of warmth.

Nociceptor

A sensory receptor that responds to damaging or potentially damaging stimuli by sending signals to the spinal cord and brain.

Thermoreceptor

A type of sensory receptor specialized to detect changes in temperature.

Meissner's Corpuscles

Specialized nerve endings in the skin that are sensitive to light touch and texture.