Excessive heat or extremes of pH often cause denaturation of proteins, which means that the proteins

a. have fallen apart into individual monomer subunits.
b. are no longer biological molecules.
c. have broken into many separate domains.
d. are no longer in a functional three dimensional structure.
e. are highly reactive.


D

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