Research indicates that ibuprofen, a drug used to relieve inflammation and pain, is a mixture of two enantiomers; that is, molecules that _____

A) have identical chemical formulas but differ in the branching of their carbon skeletons
B) are mirror images of each other
C) differ in the location of their double bonds
D) differ in the arrangement of atoms around their double bonds


B

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The movement of alleles among populations is called _____

a. bottleneck b. mutation c. founder effect d. gene flow e. genetic drift

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Deserts are usually found between what

latitudes? a. 0?15 degrees b. 15?25 degrees c. 25?40 degrees d. 40?60 degrees e. 60?90 degrees

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The bacteria that cause botulism cannot live in the

presence of a. carbon dioxide. b. oxygen. c. glucose. d. water. e. ATP.

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