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Phenylalanine is an:

Correct answer: C. An organic chemical used to make aspartame

  • A. Promote health of plants
  • B. Used to stimulate the sperms to divide
  • C. An organic chemical used to make aspartame
  • D. Used to make holes in the plasma membrane

Explanation

Biochemists discovered a strain of bacteria that is specially good at producing phenylalanine; an organic chemical needed to make aspartame, the dipeptide sweetener better known as Nutrasweet.

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