Consider the negative pion, ?-

(a) What combination of up and down quarks makes up this particle?
(b) Is the ?- a baryon or a meson?
(c) Is the ?- a lepton or a hadron?

What will be an ideal response?


(a) d (b) meson (c) hadron

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