Calcium Is an Example of __________

question 66

Multiple Choice

Calcium is an example of __________

• A) an alkali metal.
• B) a transition metal.
• C) an alkaline earth metal.
• D) a halogen.
• E) a chalcogen.

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Definitions:

Base Pairs

Pairs of nucleotides that form the building blocks of the DNA double helix, with adenine pairing with thymine, and cytosine pairing with guanine.

Insertion

The attachment site of a muscle tendon to the bone that moves when the muscle contracts.

Reverse Transcriptase

An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of DNA from an RNA template, used by retroviruses in their replication process.

Retroviruses

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