Question

The carbon-14 isotope is important because it allows scientists to determine the ___________ of an organic sample

Answer 1

The age of an organism
because it breaks down over years.

Answer 2

Determining the age of an object is the right answer.

Carbon-14 isotope or the radiocarbon dating is a technique for concluding the age of an article containing organic element by applying the characteristics of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon. Willard Libby in the 1940s invented this method of solving the issue of dating for objects containing the organic element.