Multiple choice

Which of the following processes is responsible for death of cell due to heat?

  1. Translation

  2. Renaturation

  3. Transcription

  4. Denaturation
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Explanation

Heat causes proteins to lose their specific tertiary and secondary structures, a process known as denaturation. Since enzymes and structural proteins rely on these shapes to function, denaturation leads to cell death.

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