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Reproduction, Genes, and Heredity
Item RH037002: To make proteins in its cells, an animal needs amino acids and instructions for assembling them.
What does an organism need in order to make proteins?
- Amino acids and instructions for assembling them
- Amino acids but not instructions for assembling them
- Individual carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen atoms but not instructions for assembling them
- An organism eats proteins, so it does not need to make them.
Answer Choice |
Overall |
Grades |
Gender |
Primary Language |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 1620 |
6–8 n = 930 |
9–12 n = 690 |
Male n = 816 |
Female n = 782 |
English n = 1440 |
Other n = 130 |
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| A. | 44% | 34% | 57% | 46% | 41% | 44% | 39% |
| B. | 17% | 19% | 15% | 18% | 17% | 17% | 22% |
| C. | 25% | 29% | 19% | 23% | 27% | 25% | 25% |
| D. | 14% | 18% | 10% | 14% | 15% | 14% | 13% |