
BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781305967359
Author: STARR
Publisher: CENGAGE L
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Suppose you provided water with radioactive oxygen atoms to a plant. Into which kind of molecule would the radioactivity go?
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