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After Eating Eggs for Breakfast, You Return in the Evening

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After eating eggs for breakfast, you return in the evening, dunk the dirty dishes in water, and notice the yellow streaks remain "dried on." However, after soaking awhile, the complex of various egg yolk molecules easily "washes off." What has happened?


A) Heating denatured the egg protein molecules, hydrolysis reactions then formed bonds in the dried egg, and soaking in water eventually resulted in condensation reactions where water broke these bonds.
B) Heating denatured the egg protein molecules, unorganized condensation reactions then formed bonds in the drying egg, and soaking in water eventually resulted in hydrolysis reactions where water broke these bonds.
C) The egg monomers were fused to become one polymer, which was easily dissolved by water back into monomers.
D) The presence or absence of water changes the molecules from hydrophilic to hydrophobic respectively.
E) The addition of water converted organic molecules into inorganic molecules.

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