Nester's Microbiology: A Human Perspective
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Author: Denise G. Anderson Lecturer, Sarah Salm, Deborah Allen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2, Problem 1MC
Choose the list that goes from the lightest to the heaviest:
a) proton, atom, molecule, electron.
b) atom, proton, molecule, electron.
c) electron, proton, atom, molecule.
d) atom, electron, proton, molecule.
e) proton, atom, electron, molecule.
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