Orsellinic acid, a common constituent of lichens, is synthesized from the condensation of acetyl thioester and malonyl thioester. If a lichen were grown on a medium containing acetate that was radioactively labeled with at the carbonyl carbon, which 14C at the carbons would be labeled in orsellinic acid?

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CHỊ COOH OH orsellinic acid