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800
What is the most important function of enzymes in animals?
[ "excrete waste", "carry oxygen", "help digest food", "transport messages" ]
C
801
After coming apart from the crystal, the individual ions are then surrounded by solvent particles in a process called what?
[ "osmosis", "solvation", "ionization", "hydrolysis" ]
B
802
A battery is a multiple connection of what kind of cells?
[ "voltaic cells", "cabri cells", "localweather cells", "organic cells" ]
A
803
What is needed for a person to be affected by an autosomal dominant disorder?
[ "extra alleles", "one mutated allele", "one less chromosome", "one isolated allele" ]
B
804
The rocks athe mid-ocean ridge are nearly free of what?
[ "scratches", "minerals", "metals", "sediment" ]
D
805
What do we call a simple machine that consists of a rope and grooved wheel?
[ "pulley", "lever", "pedal", "axle" ]
A
806
What do you call health-promoting molecules that inhibit the oxidation of other molecules?
[ "nutrients", "neurotransmitters", "hormones", "antioxidants" ]
D
807
In a correctly balanced equation, all coefficients must be what kind of numbers?
[ "whole", "negative", "fractional", "prime" ]
A
808
Highly reactive nonmetals, which only accept electrons and do not give them up, make poor what?
[ "insulators", "electricity conductors", "electromagnets", "alloys" ]
B
809
What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring called?
[ "cell division", "heredity", "variability", "mutation" ]
B
810
What is the most important source of electromagnetic waves on earth?
[ "the ocean", "the moon", "clouds", "the sun" ]
D
811
Which part of the atmosphere do greenhouse gasses trap heat in?
[ "thermosphere", "lithosphere", "troposphere", "stratosphere" ]
C
812
How are the fetuses of eutherian mammals connected to their mothers during gestation?
[ "Movement Placenta", "altered placenta", "complex placenta", "visual placenta" ]
C
813
Vivipary refers to the development and nourishment of a what?
[ "embryo", "seed", "egg", "nucleus" ]
A
814
What are the flattened, disk-shaped cells in blood that carry oxygen?
[ "white blood cells", "plasma", "red blood cells", "platlets" ]
C
815
What is matter in the universe that does not emit light called?
[ "dark matter", "hidden matter", "black matter", "cold matter" ]
A
816
Without particles, water vapor could not do what?
[ "evaporate", "condense", "dissipate", "dilute" ]
B
817
Sounds are produced when muscles in what organ are tensed, stretching the cords so they vibrate?
[ "diaphragm", "thorax", "throat", "larnyx" ]
D
818
What is most energy that is lost to the environment lost as?
[ "precipitation", "gravity", "vapor", "heat" ]
D
819
What is the resultant waste product of photosynthesis?
[ "carbon", "argon", "oxygen", "sulfur" ]
C
820
What is the term for a measure of both speed and direction?
[ "velocity", "acceleration", "intensity", "momentum" ]
A
821
What is a body of freshwater that flows downhill in a channel?
[ "a creek", "a river", "an eddy", "a stream" ]
D
822
What form of reproduction creates offspring that are genetically identical to the parent?
[ "asexual", "microscopic", "sexual", "primitive" ]
A
823
Asteroids, comets, and planets move around the sun in curved paths called what?
[ "orbits", "curves", "satellites", "ellipticals" ]
A
824
The primary motor cortex is located in which lobe of the brain?
[ "frontal", "Occipital", "Temporal lobe", "Parietal" ]
A
825
The beginning of what season experiences the shortest period of daylight hours?
[ "spring", "winter", "autumn", "summer" ]
B
826
The sex of developing crocodilians is determined by what during incubation?
[ "the temperature of the eggs", "the color of the eggs", "the size of the eggs", "the location of the eggs" ]
A
827
What are the two main types of star clusters?
[ "closed and spherical", "open and globular", "open and supergiant", "open and elliptical" ]
B
828
Many species of flowering plants have coevolved with specific what?
[ "pollinators", "climates", "predators", "spores" ]
A
829
Do most waves strike the shore head on or at an angle?
[ "head on", "at an angle", "at a distance", "side on" ]
B
830
What ingredient has been used in brewing, winemaking and baking for thousands of years?
[ "flour", "fruit", "yeast", "oils" ]
C
831
The tibia is the larger, weight-bearing bone located on the medial side of the leg. the fibula is the slender bone of the lateral side of the leg and does not do what?
[ "drive weight", "resist weight", "bear weight", "support weight" ]
C
832
What are reptiles unable to absorb through their skin because of scales?
[ "carbon", "oxygen", "food", "water" ]
B
833
All types of cells are enclosed by what?
[ "stoma", "substrate", "membrane", "cell wall" ]
C
834
What causes symptoms associated with sickle-cell disease?
[ "genetic drift", "transgene effects", "pleiotropic effects", "spontaneous mutation" ]
C
835
Candida and trichophyton are examples of disease-causing types of what organisms, which become parasitic?
[ "bacteria", "viruses", "fungi", "yeast" ]
C
836
What type of cells detect stimuli?
[ "expressive nerve cells", "muscle cells", "sensory nerve cells", "grid nerve cells" ]
C
837
What 3 things do animals need to live and survive?
[ "air, water, and socialization", "sex, water, and sleep", "air, water, and food", "water, food, and an ecosystem" ]
C
838
The cultivated forms of wheat, cotton, and tobacco plants are all what?
[ "allopolyploids", "sporozoans", "bales", "pores" ]
A
839
A hydrogen atom with one neutron is called what?
[ "deuterium", "covalent", "magnesium", "ionic" ]
A
840
What compounds form crystals instead of molecules?
[ "ionic compounds", "metallic compounds", "soluble compounds", "magnetic compounds" ]
A
841
What is the process by which plants make the simple sugar glucose from carbon dioxide and water is called?
[ "glycolysis", "photosynthesis", "osmosis", "metamorphosis" ]
B
842
The three units of kpa, atm or mmhg commonly measure what?
[ "weight", "resistance", "pressure", "energy" ]
C
843
The behavior of ideal gases is explained by what theory of gases?
[ "Charles's Law", "kinetic theory", "molecular theory", "kinetic molecular theory" ]
D
844
Besides ingesting and photosynthesis how can protists get their food?
[ "accumulation", "osmosis", "absorption", "digestion" ]
C
845
The male gametophyte releases what, which swim - propelled by their flagella - to reach and fertilize the female gamete or egg?
[ "cytoplasm", "sperm", "dna", "tadpoles" ]
B
846
What causes the wheels of the car to turn?
[ "turning driveshaft", "once driveshaft", "Gear Shift", "Wheel Line" ]
A
847
While the goal of science is to increase knowledge, the goal of what is to use knowledge for practical purposes?
[ "advancement", "invention", "technology", "industry" ]
C
848
What are the two terms that designate how well aqueous solutions conduct electricity?
[ "secular and nonpolar", "filter and nonpolar", "polar and nonpolar", "hot and nonpolar" ]
C
849
The concept that atoms tend to have eight electrons in their valence electron shell is called what?
[ "string rule", "diagonal rule", "octet rule", "coupling rule" ]
C
850
What separates one river system's basin from another river system's basin?
[ "a sink", "a divert", "a bend", "a divide" ]
D
851
What system possesses a memory component that allows for an efficient and dramatic response upon reinvasion of the same pathogen?
[ "suggestive immune system", "incorporate immune system", "adaptive immune system", "societal immune system" ]
C
852
Honeybees doing the waggle dance or spiders spinning a web are examples of what type of behavior?
[ "learned", "innate", "genuine", "intuitive" ]
B
853
What glands remove water, salts and other wastes from skin?
[ "sweat glands", "sex glands", "push glands", "water glands" ]
A
854
A series of arches that support the gills of aquatic amphibians and fish are known as what?
[ "scythian arches", "cochlear arches", "branchial arches", "aquatic arches" ]
C
855
What term, calculated by multiplying heart contractions by stroke volume, means the volume of blood pumped by the heart in one minute?
[ "blood output", "cardiac output", "respiratory output", "liver output" ]
B
856
Birds are thought to have evolved from a group of bipedal dinosaurs called what?
[ "staurikosaurus", "pteradactyls", "sporozoans", "therapods" ]
D
857
What is the third class of elements after metals and nonmetals?
[ "noble gases", "halogens", "synthetics", "metalloids" ]
D
858
Proteins are categorized according to shape and what property, which correlates with it?
[ "solubility", "viscosity", "salinity", "size" ]
A
859
Melting ice is drastically impacting the number of what at glacier national park?
[ "gaisers", "icebergs", "active glaciers", "trees" ]
C
860
What element is present in all organic molecules?
[ "hydrogen", "carbon", "sodium", "oxygen" ]
B
861
A sample of matter that has the same physical and chemical properties throughout itself is known as what?
[ "molecule", "essence", "substance", "antimatter" ]
C
862
Hepatitis b is inflammation of which organ?
[ "the brain", "the colon", "the kidney", "the liver" ]
D
863
If a substance has a ph value greater than 7, what does it indicate?
[ "base", "neutral", "volatile", "acidic" ]
A
864
The percent yield is determined by calculating the ratio of actual yield by what?
[ "theoretical yield", "predicted return", "actual loss", "past balance" ]
A
865
What are located along convergent and divergent plate boundaries?
[ "dunes", "volcanoes", "mezas", "megaliths" ]
B
866
What part of the neuron is a large structure with a central nucleus?
[ "Environmental", "Eye body", "cell body", "proteins body" ]
C
867
Hydrogen-based fuel cells were and are used to provide what for manned space vehicles?
[ "light", "magnetism", "gravity", "electricity" ]
D
868
What are plants that are adapted to very dry environments called?
[ "sporozoans", "pores", "succulents", "xerophytes" ]
D
869
What neurons carry nerve impulses from sense organs and internal organs to the central nervous system?
[ "sensory", "axons", "autonomic", "vascular" ]
A
870
Associated with hair follicles, what type of oil gland is found all over the body and helps to lubricate and waterproof the skin and hair?
[ "sebaceous gland", "sweat gland", "gametes gland", "melanin gland" ]
A
871
The five human senses are taste, touch, vision, hearing and one more. what is it?
[ "fear", "perception", "smell", "audio" ]
C
872
How many bones does an adult skeleton have?
[ "206", "196", "192", "208" ]
A
873
Temperature and precipitation determine the types of what that can grow in an area, in turn affecting the animals that live there?
[ "building", "plants", "roots", "birds" ]
B
874
What is the transfer of heat by physical contact?
[ "diffusion", "oxidation", "conduction", "inhibition" ]
C
875
What analytical technique, using stained gel, can separate dna fragments or rna molecules and proteins?
[ "gel electrophoresis", "microwave electrophoresis", "surface electrophoresis", "static electrophoresis" ]
A
876
Questioning claims based on their scientific verifiability rather than accepting claims based on faith or anecdotes is called what?
[ "scientific fact", "scientific mimicry", "scientific extreme", "scientific skepticism" ]
D
877
Animals with better fitness have a better chance of passing their genes onto the next generation, this process is known as?
[ "survival selection", "natural evolution", "natural selection", "fitness selection" ]
C
878
What acids are the structural components of many lipids and may be saturated or unsaturated?
[ "fundamental acids", "carbonic acids", "ionic acids", "fatty acids" ]
D
879
Earth's axis is an imaginary line passing through which poles?
[ "East and North", "southwest and south", "north and south", "west and south" ]
C
880
What system does addictive drugs affect?
[ "checks and balances", "reward system", "honor system", "digestive system" ]
B
881
What happens when ionic compounds are dissolved in water?
[ "repel electricity", "magnetize electricity", "deflect electricity", "conduct electricity" ]
D
882
What is the process in which unspecialized cells become specialized in structure and function to perform certain tasks in the body?
[ "differentiation", "mutation", "speciation", "transcription" ]
A
883
Toxins and poisons are ______ enzyme inhibitos
[ "cancerous", "observable", "reversible", "irreversible" ]
D
884
How many types of basic sensory receptors are there?
[ "four", "six", "five", "five" ]
C
885
What bond is the force of attraction that holds together two atoms that share a pair of valence electrons?
[ "hydrogen", "metallic", "covalent", "polar" ]
C
886
Above the meristem, the rest of the root is covered with a single layer of what type of cells, which may have root hairs?
[ "dermal", "vegetative", "epidermal", "single celled" ]
C
887
What were the first plants to evolve?
[ "nonvascular plants", "fungi", "trees", "photoreactive plants" ]
A
888
What term describes the distance between two corresponding points on adjacent waves?
[ "threshold", "frequency", "variation", "wavelength" ]
D
889
What break down dead organisms and other organic waste and release inorganic molecules back to the environment called?
[ "carnivores", "nematodes", "detritivores", "decomposers" ]
D
890
The variety of cell shapes seen in prokaryotes and eukaryotes reflects the functions that each what has?
[ "cell", "organ", "proteins", "life" ]
A
891
What is the science of classifying living things called?
[ "taxonomy", "botany", "methodology", "terminology" ]
A
892
Illustrating how form follows function, long, slender protein strands that make up what tissue are essential for contracting and relaxing?
[ "veins", "ligaments", "tendons", "muscle" ]
D
893
What makes marginal lands unsuitable for farming?
[ "drought", "pestilence", "disease", "flood" ]
A
894
What happens to water when it freezes?
[ "it shrinks", "changes volume", "changes to gas", "it expands" ]
D
895
The three parts of the human small intestine is the duodenum, jejunum, and what?
[ "colon", "appendix", "ileum", "cecum" ]
C
896
What is the term for the ability of a fluid to exert an upward force on any object placed in it?
[ "density", "resonance", "viscosity", "buoyancy" ]
D
897
A fuel cell is a galvanic cell that requires a constant external supply of what?
[ "electricity", "generators", "complexes", "reactants" ]
D
898
Lichens are not a single organism, but rather an example of a what?
[ "fusion", "homogeneous mixture", "symbiosis", "mutualism" ]
D
899
What theory states that there is no interaction between individual gas particles?
[ "vortex theory", "viscosity theory", "kinetic theory", "Avoidance theory" ]
C