The Five Basic Tastes Listed in the Text Are

question 138

Multiple Choice

The five basic tastes listed in the text are

• A)sweet, salt, sour, bitter, and umami.
• B)salt, metallic, acid, milky, and umami.
• C)acid, salt, meaty, umami, and bitter.
• D)bitter, metallic, waxy, umami, and milky.

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Definitions:

Double Helix

Double spiral; describes the three-dimensional shape of DNA.

Deoxyribose Sugar

A five-carbon sugar molecule that is a component of DNA molecules.

Hydrogen Bonds

Weak bonds that occur when a hydrogen atom in one molecule is attracted to an electronegative atom in another molecule.

Semiconservative Replication

The method by which DNA is replicated in all known cells, where each of the two strands of the DNA molecule serve as a template for the production of the complementary strand.