Pepsin, a digestive enzyme that degrades proteins in the stomach, is synthesized as pepsinogen and

converted to active pepsin in the stomach by the removal of several amino acids. The activation of
pepsin is an example of



a. transcriptional regulation.
b. translational regulation.
c. posttranscriptional regulation.
d. posttranslational regulation.
e. RNA interference.


D

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