Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Matter and Energy in Living Systems ~ Misconception MEM076

Food is simply converted into waste materials and eliminated from the body (Smith & Anderson, 1986).

Items that test for misconception MEM076 in this project (MEGA) and key idea ()
Item ID Number	Item Description	How Often the Misconception was Chosen
EB032003	When scientists fed laboratory rats food with labeled carbon atoms, they found the labeled carbon atoms in both the rats’ waste products and body structures.	28%
EB058001	The egg yolk gets smaller as a 5-day old chick grows inside an egg into a 10-day chick because some of the molecules from the yolk are broken down and assembled into new molecules that become part of the chick’s body.	13%
EB057001	Some of the molecules from milk a nursing infant drinks are changed into new molecules that become part of its body structures.	9%