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Categorize Different Foods Categorize the food items below by selecting which macromolecule they are known to contain. apple steak celery olive oil potato avocado egg

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Answer:

The correct categorization of the listed food items would be:

Carbohydrate: apple, celery, potato

Protein: Steak, egg,

Fat: Olive oil, avocado.

The four major macromolecules are carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids.

Foods like apple, celery, and potato are rich in carbohydrates.

Foods like chicken, meat, eggs, et cetera are rich in proteins.

Similarly, foods like olive oil, mustard oil, butter, et cetera are rich in fats or lipids.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer: apple- carb; steak- protein; celery- carb; olive oil- lipid; potato- carb; avocado- lipid; egg- protein

Step-by-step explanation:

Fruit and veggies are mainly made of carbohydrates because that is the storage and structural components they use (think glucose, cellulose, starch, etc.); Steak is a meat, and meat is technically muscle- muscle is built from protein; Olive oil and avocado are lipids because they are considered fats; Egg is protein because it is an animal by-product, and contains many amino acids, which build up proteins.

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