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Summarize the Link between pH and the biology of organisms and ecosystems?
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Animals and Humans: Every part of the body has an optimal pH. This pH will allow that part of the body to operate at the most efficient level, because the enzymes, or catalyzing proteins will be in their natural, or normal, form. For example, the optimal pH of the stomach is somewhere around 2, whereas the optimal pH of saliva is drastically different because of the processes that they must perform. Any pH higher or lower will denature or deform the enzymes in some way that will alter their active site and make the protein operate at a lower level of efficiency than it is capable of. If the pH is changed too much, the enzyme may not function at all. It will be completely denatured.
Ecosystems: pH acts basically the same in the environment than in the body,. There is an optimal pH, and if the pH goes too far one way or the other, the ecosystem will no longer function as it is supposed to. There will be acid rain and deposition and the plants will die due to the high acidity. Every animal is very vulnerable to this problem.
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