Why are radioactive isotopes useful in scientific research?

a. Because they are not readily incorporated into biological reactions.
b. Because they are difficult to detect in small amounts but living cells cannot distinguish them from the corresponding stable isotopes
c. Because they can be used as tracers in particular atoms and molecules through metobolic pathways
d. Because they decay sponantaneously and give off energy and subatomic particles.


Ans: a. Because they are not readily incorporated into biological reactions.

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