Which pair of statements best describes an essential amino acid?
It is an amino acid that contains peptide bonds. An example is proline.
It is an amino acid that contains nitrogen. An example is aspartic acid.
It is an amino acid that cannot be made by the body. It must be obtained from eating certain foods.
It is an amino acid that can be produced by the body. Vitamin supplements maintain healthy levels.
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The oxidizing agent our bodies use to obtain energy from food is oxygen (from the air). if you breathe 15 times a minute (at rest), taking in and exhaling 0.5 l of air with each breath, what volume of air do you breathe each day? air is 21% oxygen by volume. what volume of oxygen do you breathe each day?

In german cockroaches, curved wing (cv) is recessive to normal wing (cv+). bill, who is raising cockroaches in his dorm room, finds that the frequency of the gene for curved wings in his cockroach population is 0.6. in his friend joe’s apartment, the frequency of the gene for curved wings is 0.2. one day joe visits bill in his dorm room, and several cockroaches jump out of joe’s hair and join the population in bill’s room. bill estimates that, now, 10% of the cockroaches in his dorm room are individual roaches that jumped out of joe’s hair. what is the new frequency of curved wings among cockroaches in bill’s room? 0.69 0.4 0.5 0.31 0.20

Which identifies the main purpose of biological taxonomy?