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Molecules of life | Kent State | Dr. Datta
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Question: what is the molecule of life?
Answer: DNA
Question: What two abilities does an organism need in order to be alive?
Answer: Replication and Movement
Question: Who was Craig Venter?
Answer: A scientist that experimentally proved that DNA is the molecule of
life
Question: Describe Craig Venter's experiment
Answer: He took a bacteria, removed the DNA, and noticed it quickly died.
So, he took another bacteria-less DNA, gave it synthetic DNA and it lived.
Question: What is a cation?
Answer: A positively charged ion
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Question: what is an anion?
Answer: A negatively charged ion
Question: what are the cations in blood plasma?
Answer: calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium
Question: what are the anions in blood plasma?
Answer: Chloride, Bicarbonate, Dihydrogen phosphate, sulfate
Question: Perchlorate
Answer: ClO4-
Question: Sulfate
Answer: SO4 2-
Question: Hydroxide
Answer: OH-
Question: Carbonate
Answer: CO3 2-
Question: Hydrogen Sulfate
Molecules of life | Kent State | Dr. Datta
| Exam 1 Questions and Expert Answers
the Latest Version
Question: what is the molecule of life?
Answer: DNA
Question: What two abilities does an organism need in order to be alive?
Answer: Replication and Movement
Question: Who was Craig Venter?
Answer: A scientist that experimentally proved that DNA is the molecule of
life
Question: Describe Craig Venter's experiment
Answer: He took a bacteria, removed the DNA, and noticed it quickly died.
So, he took another bacteria-less DNA, gave it synthetic DNA and it lived.
Question: What is a cation?
Answer: A positively charged ion
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Question: what is an anion?
Answer: A negatively charged ion
Question: what are the cations in blood plasma?
Answer: calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium
Question: what are the anions in blood plasma?
Answer: Chloride, Bicarbonate, Dihydrogen phosphate, sulfate
Question: Perchlorate
Answer: ClO4-
Question: Sulfate
Answer: SO4 2-
Question: Hydroxide
Answer: OH-
Question: Carbonate
Answer: CO3 2-
Question: Hydrogen Sulfate