Answer:
Lungs.
Explanation:
This is because the lungs are respiratory organs in the body that are located at the either side of the thorax or chest. These are organs that are incharge of exchange of gases. The air is breathe in through the trachea i.e oxygen is inhaled and carbondioxide which is the waste product is exhaled. Gas exchange take place in the lungs.
The correct answer is:
C. valence.
Explanation:
The valence or valency of an element is a stratagem of its connecting power with other atoms when it makes chemical compounds or molecules.
A valence electron is an outer shell electron that is connected with an atom, and that can compete in the formation of a chemical bond if the outer shell is not closed; in a single covalent bond, both atoms in the bond provide one valence electron in order to form a shared pair
Answer:
See explanation
Explanation:
The drug thalidomide with molecular formula C13H10N2O4 was widely prescribed by doctors for morning sickness in pregnant women in the 1960s.
The drug was sold as a racemic mixture (+)(R)-thalidomide and (-)(S)-thalidomide.
Unfortunately, only the (+)(R)-thalidomide exhibited the required effect while (-)(S)-thalidomide is a teratogen.
This goes a long way to underscore the importance of separation of enantiomers in drug production.
Therefore, all the teratogenic effects observed when using the drug thalidomide was actually as a result of the presence of (-)(S)-thalidomide, the unwanted enantiomer.
