While the pH of saliva ranges from 6.5 to 11.5, the pH in the stomach is about pH 2. What would you expect the optimum pH to be for the enzymes secreted into your stomach that digest proteins into amino acids?

What will be an ideal response?


pH of the stomach is between 1 & 2, so optimum pH would fall within that range.

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