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cabate

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What advantages are there to synthesizing a naturally occurring medicine, such as Taxol, in the laboratory rather than isolating it from nature?
 
  A) Synthesizing a natural product can be advantageous when the source of the natural product is rare and thus not readily available.
  B) In synthesizing the natural product in the laboratory, the chemist is able to create closely related compounds that may have even greater medicinal properties.
  C) Both A and B are true.
  D) In synthesizing the natural product in the laboratory, a chemist can increase the concentration of the synthetic beyond that of natural product to insure maximum potency for good heath.

Question 2

Why does condensation have a tendency to raise the temperature of a liquid?
 
  A) Water vapor molecules absorb kinetic energy when they slow and form liquid water.
  B) Because the liquid water absorbs the water vapor molecules.
  C) Condensation leads to slow moving molecules.
  D) Hydrogen bonding leads to a increase in the overall amount of kinetic energy in the water vapor.
  E) none of the above



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D



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