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Who was the actual party that requested the critical sites be taken down?
Church of Scientology
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn late 2002, the Internet Archive removed various sites that were critical of Scientology from the Wayback Machine. An error message stated that this was in response to a \"request by the site owner.\" Later, it was clarified that lawyers from the Church of Scientology had demanded the removal ...
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Which law firm leveraged Wayback Machine to protect their client in 2003?
Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn 2003, Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey defended a client from a trademark dispute using the Archive's Wayback Machine. The attorneys were able to demonstrate that the claims made by the plaintiff were invalid, based on the content of their web site from several years prior. The plaintiff, Hea...
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Which company filed suit against Harding, Earley, Follmer & Frailey's client?
Healthcare Advocates
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn 2003, Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey defended a client from a trademark dispute using the Archive's Wayback Machine. The attorneys were able to demonstrate that the claims made by the plaintiff were invalid, based on the content of their web site from several years prior. The plaintiff, Hea...
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Who did Healthcare advocates change their case to include as a defendant?
Internet Archive
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn 2003, Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey defended a client from a trademark dispute using the Archive's Wayback Machine. The attorneys were able to demonstrate that the claims made by the plaintiff were invalid, based on the content of their web site from several years prior. The plaintiff, Hea...
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What laws did Healthcare Advocates accuse Internet Archive of having broken?
the DMCA and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn 2003, Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey defended a client from a trademark dispute using the Archive's Wayback Machine. The attorneys were able to demonstrate that the claims made by the plaintiff were invalid, based on the content of their web site from several years prior. The plaintiff, Hea...
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What kind of protocol is the Robots Exclusion Standard?
voluntary
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What file is utilized to exercise the rights promoted by the Robots Exclusion Standard?
Robots.txt
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nRobots.txt is used as part of the Robots Exclusion Standard, a voluntary protocol the Internet Archive respects that disallows bots from indexing certain pages delineated by its creator as off-limits. As a result, the Internet Archive has rendered unavailable a number of web sites that now are i...
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If a site prevents Internet Archive from recording it, what file is still saved?
Robots.txt
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nRobots.txt is used as part of the Robots Exclusion Standard, a voluntary protocol the Internet Archive respects that disallows bots from indexing certain pages delineated by its creator as off-limits. As a result, the Internet Archive has rendered unavailable a number of web sites that now are i...
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Who asserts that they will respond to direct contacts requesting material be removed from the archive?
Internet Archive
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nThe Internet Archive states, however, \"Sometimes a website owner will contact us directly and ask us to stop crawling or archiving a site. We comply with these requests.\" In addition, the web site says: \"The Internet Archive is not interested in preserving or offering access to Web sites or o...
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Who sued Internet Archive in 2005?
Suzanne Shell
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn December 2005, activist Suzanne Shell filed suit demanding Internet Archive pay her US $100,000 for archiving her web site profane-justice.org between 1999 and 2004. Internet Archive filed a declaratory judgment action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Californi...
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What was the URL owned by Suzanne Shell?
profane-justice.org
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn December 2005, activist Suzanne Shell filed suit demanding Internet Archive pay her US $100,000 for archiving her web site profane-justice.org between 1999 and 2004. Internet Archive filed a declaratory judgment action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Californi...
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In what jurisdiction were Internet Archive's counterclaims filed?
Northern District of California
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn December 2005, activist Suzanne Shell filed suit demanding Internet Archive pay her US $100,000 for archiving her web site profane-justice.org between 1999 and 2004. Internet Archive filed a declaratory judgment action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Californi...
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In what jurisdiction where counterclaims nullified by the court?
District of Colorado
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn December 2005, activist Suzanne Shell filed suit demanding Internet Archive pay her US $100,000 for archiving her web site profane-justice.org between 1999 and 2004. Internet Archive filed a declaratory judgment action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Californi...
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When did Suzanne Shell's suit against Internet Archive come to an end?
April 25, 2007
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nOn April 25, 2007, Internet Archive and Suzanne Shell jointly announced the settlement of their lawsuit. The Internet Archive said it \"...has no interest in including materials in the Wayback Machine of persons who do not wish to have their Web content archived. We recognize that Ms. Shell has ...
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Who stated that they had no wish to violate individuals' copyrights?
Internet Archive
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nOn April 25, 2007, Internet Archive and Suzanne Shell jointly announced the settlement of their lawsuit. The Internet Archive said it \"...has no interest in including materials in the Wayback Machine of persons who do not wish to have their Web content archived. We recognize that Ms. Shell has ...
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Who stated that they did not want to cause damage to the Internet Archive?
Suzanne Shell
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nOn April 25, 2007, Internet Archive and Suzanne Shell jointly announced the settlement of their lawsuit. The Internet Archive said it \"...has no interest in including materials in the Wayback Machine of persons who do not wish to have their Web content archived. We recognize that Ms. Shell has ...
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What was the first method used by the actor in trying to get his images taken down?
DMCA requests
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn 2013–14 a pornographic actor was trying to remove archived images of himself, first by sending multiple DMCA requests to the Archive and then in the Federal Court of Canada." ]
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What legal system did the actor use after filing DMCA petitions?
Federal Court of Canada
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn 2013–14 a pornographic actor was trying to remove archived images of himself, first by sending multiple DMCA requests to the Archive and then in the Federal Court of Canada." ]
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What are some other names the Dutch Republic is known by?
the United Provinces (Verenigde Provinciën), Federated Dutch Provinces (Foederatae Belgii Provinciae), and Dutch Federation (Belgica Foederata)
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The Dutch Republic was a republic of Europe during what time?
from 1581, when part of the Netherlands separated from Spanish rule, until 1795
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What republics did the Dutch Republic come before?
Batavian Republic, the Kingdom of Holland, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and ultimately the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands
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The Low Countries were made up of which present day countries?
Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
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Which counties in the Low Countries were not ruled by the Holy Roman Empire?
Flanders
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The majority of the Low Countries were ruled by which houses?
the House of Burgundy and subsequently the House of Habsburg
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nMost of the Low Countries had come under the rule of the House of Burgundy and subsequently the House of Habsburg. In 1549 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V issued the Pragmatic Sanction, which further unified the Seventeen Provinces under his rule. Charles was succeeded by his son, King Philip II of ...
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Who issued the Pragmatic Sanction?
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nMost of the Low Countries had come under the rule of the House of Burgundy and subsequently the House of Habsburg. In 1549 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V issued the Pragmatic Sanction, which further unified the Seventeen Provinces under his rule. Charles was succeeded by his son, King Philip II of ...
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In what year did the Netherlands rise up against Philip II?
1568
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nMost of the Low Countries had come under the rule of the House of Burgundy and subsequently the House of Habsburg. In 1549 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V issued the Pragmatic Sanction, which further unified the Seventeen Provinces under his rule. Charles was succeeded by his son, King Philip II of ...
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Why did the people of the Netherlands rise up against Philip II?
high taxes, persecution of Protestants by the government, and Philip's efforts to modernize and centralize the devolved-medieval government structures of the provinces
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nMost of the Low Countries had come under the rule of the House of Burgundy and subsequently the House of Habsburg. In 1549 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V issued the Pragmatic Sanction, which further unified the Seventeen Provinces under his rule. Charles was succeeded by his son, King Philip II of ...
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In what year was the Union of Utrecht signed?
1579
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Who signed the Union of Utrecht?
a number of the northern provinces of the Low Countries
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What was the declaration of independence of the provinces from Philip II called?
the Act of Abjuration
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In what year was the Act of Abjuration signed?
1581
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nIn 1579 a number of the northern provinces of the Low Countries signed the Union of Utrecht, in which they promised to support each other in their defence against the Spanish army. This was followed in 1581 by the Act of Abjuration, the declaration of independence of the provinces from Philip II....
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What was the purpose of the Union of Utrecht?
to support each other in their defence against the Spanish army
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nIn 1579 a number of the northern provinces of the Low Countries signed the Union of Utrecht, in which they promised to support each other in their defence against the Spanish army. This was followed in 1581 by the Act of Abjuration, the declaration of independence of the provinces from Philip II....
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In what year did the United Provinces invite Francis, Duke of Anjou to lead them?
1582
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nIn 1582 the United Provinces invited Francis, Duke of Anjou to lead them; but after a failed attempt to take Antwerp in 1583, the duke left the Netherlands again. After the assassination of William of Orange (10 July 1584), both Henry III of France and Elizabeth I of England declined the offer of...
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In what year did Francis, Duke of Anjou leave the Netherlands?
1583
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nIn 1582 the United Provinces invited Francis, Duke of Anjou to lead them; but after a failed attempt to take Antwerp in 1583, the duke left the Netherlands again. After the assassination of William of Orange (10 July 1584), both Henry III of France and Elizabeth I of England declined the offer of...
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When was William of Orange assassinated?
10 July 1584
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Who agreed to turn the United Provinces into a protectorate of England?
Elizabeth I
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nIn 1582 the United Provinces invited Francis, Duke of Anjou to lead them; but after a failed attempt to take Antwerp in 1583, the duke left the Netherlands again. After the assassination of William of Orange (10 July 1584), both Henry III of France and Elizabeth I of England declined the offer of...
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In what year did the United Provinces become a confederacy?
1588
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What events created the Batavian Republic?
a series of republican revolutions in 1783–1795
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The republican forces fled to which country?
France
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nThe Republic of the United Provinces lasted until a series of republican revolutions in 1783–1795 created the Batavian Republic. During this period, republican forces took several major cities of the Netherlands. After initially fleeing, the monarchist forces came back with British, Austrian, and...
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The Napoleonic Kingdom of Holland replaced which republic?
the Batavian Republic
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nThe Republic of the United Provinces lasted until a series of republican revolutions in 1783–1795 created the Batavian Republic. During this period, republican forces took several major cities of the Netherlands. After initially fleeing, the monarchist forces came back with British, Austrian, and...
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In what year did the Netherlands gain independence from France?
1813
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What names were used in the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814?
"United Provinces of the Netherlands" and "United Netherlands"
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The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed by which countries?
Austrian Netherlands, Luxembourg and Liège
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The Dutch Republic dominated world trade during what time?
the Dutch Golden Age
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What was the wealthiest and most urbanized region in the world during the 17th century?
The County of Holland
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When was the stock exchange founded in the Netherlands?
1602
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Which city in the Netherlands has the oldest stock exchange?
Rotterdam
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The Dutch East-India Company inhabited how many cities?
six
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Which city did the Dutch East-India Company decide to reside in after a court decided they could legally only operate in one city?
Amsterdam
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The Dutch had one of the strongest and fastest navies in the world during what time?
1590–1712
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The Dutch operated a slave trade from which locations?
Africa and the Pacific
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nBetween 1590–1712 the Dutch also possessed one of the strongest and fastest navies in the world, allowing for their varied conquests including breaking the Portuguese sphere of influence on the Indian Ocean and in the Orient, as well as a lucrative slave trade from Africa and the Pacific." ]
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What was one of the conquests of the Dutch Navy?
breaking the Portuguese sphere of influence on the Indian Ocean and in the Orient
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nBetween 1590–1712 the Dutch also possessed one of the strongest and fastest navies in the world, allowing for their varied conquests including breaking the Portuguese sphere of influence on the Indian Ocean and in the Orient, as well as a lucrative slave trade from Africa and the Pacific." ]
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The Dutch Republic consisted of how many provinces?
seven
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Who were the Generality Lands governed by?
the States General (Staten-Generaal in Dutch), the federal government
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nThe republic was a confederation of seven provinces, which had their own governments and were very independent, and a number of so-called Generality Lands. The latter were governed directly by the States General (Staten-Generaal in Dutch), the federal government. The States General were seated in...
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The States General was made up of what?
representatives of each of the seven provinces
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What was the 8th province of the Dutch Republic?
the County of Drenthe
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Why was the County of Drenthe denied representation by the States General?
this area was so poor it was exempt from paying federal taxes
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The main executive official of the Provincial States was called what?
raadspensionaris
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Who had more power during times of war than the raadspensionaris?
the stadtholder
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Who commanded the army?
the stadtholder
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Who appointed the stadtholders?
the states of each province
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Who were always chosen as stadtholders of most of the provinces?
the princes of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau, beginning with William the Silent
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Which states had the same stadtholder as Holland?
Zeeland and usually Utrecht
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What group of people supported the stadtholders, particularly the princes of Orange?
Orangists
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Who wanted to replace the stadtholders with a republican structure?
Republicans
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Several border territories were designated to the United Provinces after what?
the Peace of Westphalia
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The border territories assigned to the United Provinces were known as what?
federally-governed Generality Lands (Generaliteitslanden)
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What were the names of the border territories assigned to the United Provinces?
Staats-Brabant (present North Brabant), Staats-Vlaanderen (present Zeeuws-Vlaanderen), Staats-Limburg (around Maastricht) and Staats-Oppergelre (around Venlo, after 1715)
[ "Dutch_Republic\n\nAfter the Peace of Westphalia, several border territories were assigned to the United Provinces. They were federally-governed Generality Lands (Generaliteitslanden). They were Staats-Brabant (present North Brabant), Staats-Vlaanderen (present Zeeuws-Vlaanderen), Staats-Limburg (around Maastricht)...
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Who was in control of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Dutch West India Company (WIC)?
The States General of the United Provinces
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Some shipping expeditions were mostly initiated by which provinces?
Holland and/or Zeeland
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Who was influenced by the Constitution of the Republic of the United Provinces?
The framers of the US Constitution
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Who described the Dutch confederacy as exhibiting "Imbecility in the government; discord among the provinces; foreign influence and indignities; a precarious existence in peace, and peculiar calamities from war."
James Madison
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The American Declaration of Independence is similar to what?
the Act of Abjuration, essentially the declaration of independence of the United Provinces
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What granted Holland and Zeeland the right to accept only one religion?
the Union of Utrecht of 20 January 1579
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What did the Union state that every person should be free to choose?
personal religion
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Who was a strong supporter of freedom of religion and wanted to unite Protestants and Catholics in the new union?
William of Orange
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What was forbidden in all provinces?
Catholic services
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What did any person who wanted to hold public office need to conform to during the Republic?
the Reformed Church
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The degree to which different religions were persecuted depended on what?
the time period and regional or city leaders
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What was the punishment for people who opened their homes to Catholic services during 17th-century Leiden?
fined 200 guilders (a year's wage for a skilled tradesman) and banned from the city
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What was one reason for the large amounts of immigration of religious refugees from other parts of Europe?
personal freedom of religion
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What was the main subject of controversy that arose within the Reformed Church during the beginning of the Republic?
predestination
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The controversy surrounding the subject of predestination is known as what?
the struggle between Arminianism and Gomarism, or between Remonstrants and Contra-Remonstrants
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What led to the banning of the Remonstrant faith in 1618?
the Synod of Dort
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When did the active persecution of religious services become more of a restricted tolerance?
in the 18th century
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Religious services for other religions were tolerated as long as they adhered to what rule?
as long as their services took place secretly in private churches
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What language does the word "symbiosis" come from?
Greek
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What type of organism did Frank apply the term "symbiosis" to?
lichens
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What nationality was Heinrich Anton de Bary?
German
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How long did it take for scientists to stop using the narrow definition of symbiosis?
130 years
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What is the type of symbiotic relationship where two organisms can't survive without each other?
obligate
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What is the type of symbiotic relationship where the symbionts can live together but can also survive alone?
facultative
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What is an example of an obligate relationship?
lichens
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What is an example of ectosymbiosis?
mistletoe
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What is it called when the organisms are not physically joined?
disjunctive symbiosis
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What is it called when one symbiont lives within its partner?
endosymbiosis
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What do bacterial endosymbionts give necessary nutrition to?
insects
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What is the name of a bacteria inside of tree roots?
Frankia
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What endosymbionts live in coral?
algae
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What organisms are described as living on the surface of whales?
barnacles
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