You work for a company that manufactures food products. a new "wonder food" contains only carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. at this
point, your research can say with certainty that the food ______ a. includes proteins.
b. includes nucleic acids.
c. could only be made of triglycerides.
d. could only be made of carbohydrates.
e. does not include proteins or nucleic acids.
<em>The correct answer would be that the food could only be made of carbohydrates.</em>
<u>Proteins contain other elements such as nitrogen and sulfur in addition to carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen while nucleic acids and triglycerides contain phosphorus in addition to carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.</u>
The only chemical substance that contains carbon, oxygen and hydrogen is carbohydrates.
