Compound D is a ____________________.

Assume that you are taking an organic chemistry class. Your teacher has given you four organic compounds to analyze. She tells you that one is a carbohydrate, one is a hydrocarbon, one is a nucleic
acid, and one is a protein.

You discover that Compound D contains only carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorous. Of the four types of compounds which were given to you to analyze, which one best describes Compound D?


nucleic acid

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a. a survey of biological diversity. b. maintaining biodiversity to benefit human populations. c. ecological considerations of diversity. d. an effort to maintain biodiversity. e. all of these

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Induced pluripotency is a term related to ___

A. producing stem cells from normal body cells B. cloning animals like Dolly the sheep C. the discovery of mutated genes that cause disease D. the decoding of the human genome E. the practice of eugenics

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From which part of a eukaryotic cell do microtubules radiate?

a. Flagellum b. Nucleus c. Centrosome d. Mitochondrion

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