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The stomach secretes gastric juice, which contains hydrochloric acid. What is its function?

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Hydrochloric acid performs the following functions in the stomach-

It kills any germs which may have entered along with the food.
It activates pepsin to act on proteins. Pepsin digests proteins into peptides.

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