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Which statement best distinguishes plants and animals as they relate to amino acids?

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Plants can synthesize all twenty amino acids. Humans must eat plants or animals to obtain some of these amino acids.

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. Some are deficient in some amino acids, that does not mean the aa's are absent, it only means that they are there in low concentrations
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