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Context: with the system environment, which may be designed vessels β€” often laboratory glassware. chemical reactions can result in the formation or dissociation of molecules, that is, molecules breaking apart to form two or more molecules or rearrangement of atoms within or across molecules. chemical reactions usually ...
A) collide
Context: variation in total solar irradiance is thought to have little effect on the earth ' s surface temperature because of the thermal time constant - - the characteristic response time of the earth ' s global surface temperature to changes in forcing. this time constant is large enough to smooth annual variations b...
C) temperature gradient
Context: . these biochemical strategies are unique to land plants. = = = medicine and materials = = = phytochemistry is a branch of plant biochemistry primarily concerned with the chemical substances produced by plants during secondary metabolism. some of these compounds are toxins such as the alkaloid coniine from hem...
A) four
Context: the richness of the universe teaches us modesty and guides us to search for both primitive and intelligent forms of life elsewhere without prejudice. ( or underlined when italics are not available ). the evolutionary relationships and heredity of a group of organisms is called its phylogeny. phylogenetic studi...
D) a common ancestor
Context: ##ediment to up - stream navigation, and there are generally variations in water level, and when the discharge becomes small in the dry season. it is impossible to maintain a sufficient depth of water in the low - water channel. the possibility to secure uniformity of depth in a river by lowering the shoals ob...
A) osmosis
Context: ##idermal electronics mirror those of skin to allow them to perform in this same way. like skin, epidermal electronics are ultrathin ( h < 100 ΞΌm ), low - modulus ( e β‰ˆ70 kpa ), and lightweight ( < 10 mg / cm2 ), enabling them to conform to the skin without applying strain. conformal contact and proper adhesio...
C) hyperthyroidism
Context: unitary recordings in freely - moving pulse weakly electric fish suggest spike timing encoding of electrosensory signals if a fintie group g acts topologically and faithfully on r ^ 3, then g is a subgroup of o ( 3 ) the work is a study of the geometry of the molecules via molecular mechanics of the main alkal...
D) in water
Context: this proceeding explores some of the questions that connect the lhc and neutrino experiments : what is the origin of mass? what is the meaning of flavor? is there direct evidence of new forces or particles? the neutrino program investigating these questions is large and diverse. the strategy here, to narrow th...
B) phagocytosis
Context: ##ta together form the monophyletic group or clade streptophytina. nonvascular land plants are embryophytes that lack the vascular tissues xylem and phloem. they include mosses, liverworts and hornworts. pteridophytic vascular plants with true xylem and phloem that reproduced by spores germinating into free - ...
B) leaves
Context: , specialty and engineering plastics. polyvinyl chloride ( pvc ) is widely used, inexpensive, and annual production quantities are large. it lends itself to a vast array of applications, from artificial leather to electrical insulation and cabling, packaging, and containers. its fabrication and processing are ...
C) medusa
Context: is more information always better? or are there some situations in which more information can make us worse off? good ( 1967 ) argues that expected utility maximizers should always accept more information if the information is cost - free and relevant. but good ' s argument presupposes that you are certain you...
A) a fact
Context: ##l ( active ingredient in cannabis ), caffeine, morphine and nicotine come directly from plants. others are simple derivatives of botanical natural products. for example, the pain killer aspirin is the acetyl ester of salicylic acid, originally isolated from the bark of willow trees, and a wide range of opiat...
C) carcinogens
Context: variation in total solar irradiance is thought to have little effect on the earth ' s surface temperature because of the thermal time constant - - the characteristic response time of the earth ' s global surface temperature to changes in forcing. this time constant is large enough to smooth annual variations b...
C) momentum
Context: to chromatin, which is a complex of dna and protein found in eukaryotic cells. = = = genes, development, and evolution = = = development is the process by which a multicellular organism ( plant or animal ) goes through a series of changes, starting from a single cell, and taking on various forms that are chara...
D) primates
Context: are single - celled organisms such as bacteria, whereas eukaryotes can be single - celled or multicellular. in multicellular organisms, every cell in the organism ' s body is derived ultimately from a single cell in a fertilized egg. = = = cell structure = = = every cell is enclosed within a cell membrane that...
B) cell division
Context: are single - celled organisms such as bacteria, whereas eukaryotes can be single - celled or multicellular. in multicellular organisms, every cell in the organism ' s body is derived ultimately from a single cell in a fertilized egg. = = = cell structure = = = every cell is enclosed within a cell membrane that...
A) protocells
Context: parts of australia have been privileged to see dazzling lights in the night sky as the aurora australis ( known as the southern lights ) puts on a show this year. aurorae are significant in australian indigenous astronomical traditions. aboriginal people associate aurorae with fire, death, blood, and omens, sh...
C) antarctica
Context: also called pain medicine, or algiatry ) is the medical discipline concerned with the relief of pain. pharmacogenomics is a form of individualized medicine. podiatric medicine is the study of, diagnosis, and medical treatment of disorders of the foot, ankle, lower limb, hip and lower back. sexual medicine is c...
C) excretion
Context: organic compounds, such as sugars, to ammonia, metal ions or even hydrogen gas. salt - tolerant archaea ( the haloarchaea ) use sunlight as an energy source, and other species of archaea fix carbon, but unlike plants and cyanobacteria, no known species of archaea does both. archaea reproduce asexually by binar...
A) the sun
Context: = = organic compounds are molecules that contain carbon bonded to another element such as hydrogen. with the exception of water, nearly all the molecules that make up each organism contain carbon. carbon can form covalent bonds with up to four other atoms, enabling it to form diverse, large, and complex molecu...
B) isomers
Context: and measuring radiation levels. the surveyor program conducted uncrewed lunar landings and takeoffs, as well as taking surface and regolith observations. despite the setback caused by the apollo 1 fire, which killed three astronauts, the program proceeded. apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low ...
B) moon
Context: , subsequent switching to inbreeding becomes disadvantageous since it allows expression of the previously masked deleterious recessive mutations, commonly referred to as inbreeding depression. unlike in higher animals, where parthenogenesis is rare, asexual reproduction may occur in plants by several different...
D) genetic disorder
Context: induced stem cells ( isc ) as related to the donor. = = = stem cells = = = stem cells are undifferentiated cells with the ability to divide in culture and give rise to different forms of specialized cells. stem cells are divided into " adult " and " embryonic " stem cells according to their source. while there...
B) red blood cells
Context: river - beds ), but not for where there may be large obstructions in the ground. an open caisson that is used in soft grounds or high water tables, where open trench excavations are impractical, can also be used to install deep manholes, pump stations and reception / launch pits for microtunnelling, pipe jacki...
D) when they melt
Context: in 1738. the spinning jenny, invented in 1764, was a machine that used multiple spinning wheels ; however, it produced low quality thread. the water frame patented by richard arkwright in 1767, produced a better quality thread than the spinning jenny. the spinning mule, patented in 1779 by samuel crompton, pro...
B) robert boyle
Context: are the cryosphere ( corresponding to ice ) as a distinct portion of the hydrosphere and the pedosphere ( corresponding to soil ) as an active and intermixed sphere. the following fields of science are generally categorized within the earth sciences : geology describes the rocky parts of the earth ' s crust ( ...
D) climate
Context: carbon chains are sometimes considered as possible carriers of some diffuse interstellar bands. spectroscopic observations in uv band carried by spectrometer stis fed with hst, give us the possibility to detect many interstellar molecules. we focused our attention on c2 molecule and we detected it in spectra o...
A) composition
Context: astronomy uses methods from astronomy to determine past celestial constellations for forensic purposes. forensic botany is the study of plant life in order to gain information regarding possible crimes. forensic chemistry is the study of detection and identification of illicit drugs, accelerants used in arson ...
D) scientific method
Context: ability of cells to receive, process, and transmit signals with its environment and with itself. signals can be non - chemical such as light, electrical impulses, and heat, or chemical signals ( or ligands ) that interact with receptors, which can be found embedded in the cell membrane of another cell or locat...
C) neurons
Context: oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water to pass through while restricting the movement of larger molecules and charged particles such as ions. cell membranes also contain membrane proteins, including integral membrane proteins that go across the membrane serving as membrane transporters, and peripheral proteins that...
B) plasma membrane
Context: have evolved from the earliest emergence of life to present day. earth formed about 4. 5 billion years ago and all life on earth, both living and extinct, descended from a last universal common ancestor that lived about 3. 5 billion years ago. geologists have developed a geologic time scale that divides the hi...
C) relative dating
Context: best - known and controversial applications of genetic engineering is the creation and use of genetically modified crops or genetically modified livestock to produce genetically modified food. crops have been developed to increase production, increase tolerance to abiotic stresses, alter the composition of the...
D) natural selection
Context: ##tronics, the science of using mechanical devices with human muscular, musculoskeletal, and nervous systems to assist or enhance motor control lost by trauma, disease, or defect. prostheses are typically used to replace parts lost by injury ( traumatic ) or missing from birth ( congenital ) or to supplement d...
D) forearm
Context: the cell ' s life. some epigenetic changes have been shown to be heritable, while others are reset in the germ cells. epigenetic changes in eukaryotic biology serve to regulate the process of cellular differentiation. during morphogenesis, totipotent stem cells become the various pluripotent cell lines of the ...
B) mutations
Context: ##ch which is stored in the chloroplast. starch is the characteristic energy store of most land plants and algae, while inulin, a polymer of fructose is used for the same purpose in the sunflower family asteraceae. some of the glucose is converted to sucrose ( common table sugar ) for export to the rest of the...
C) carbon
Context: a nuclear reaction this holds true only for the nuclear particles viz. protons and neutrons. the sequence of steps in which the reorganization of chemical bonds may be taking place in the course of a chemical reaction is called its mechanism. a chemical reaction can be envisioned to take place in a number of s...
D) momentum
Context: a 4mj planet with a 15. 8day orbital period has been detected from very precise radial velocity measurements with the coralie echelle spectrograph. a second remote and more massive companion has also been detected. all the planetary companions so far detected in orbit closer than 0. 08 au have a parent star wi...
D) earth and the moon
Context: a pomeron phenomenon remains a mystery. a short review of the experimental situation in diffractive physics and an account of some spectacular manifestations of the pomeron are given. inherited traits such as shape in pisum sativum ( peas ). what mendel learned from studying plants has had far - reaching benef...
D) mass-energy
Context: the creation of your own reality and your own world. the metaphor i used was humans being like magic markers. for so long, they painted black and white pictures in their life because that ' s all they thought they could do. but they can paint with a different color and make a very vibrant and beautiful picture...
B) echinoderms
Context: ##ian period, several groups, including the lycopods, sphenophylls and progymnosperms, had independently evolved " megaspory " – their spores were of two distinct sizes, larger megaspores and smaller microspores. their reduced gametophytes developed from megaspores retained within the spore - producing organs ...
C) semen
Context: of creating cells of the other and producing adventitious shoots or roots. stolons and tubers are examples of shoots that can grow roots. roots that spread out close to the surface, such as those of willows, can produce shoots and ultimately new plants. in the event that one of the systems is lost, the other c...
C) runners
Context: best - known and controversial applications of genetic engineering is the creation and use of genetically modified crops or genetically modified livestock to produce genetically modified food. crops have been developed to increase production, increase tolerance to abiotic stresses, alter the composition of the...
A) habitat destruction
Context: this scaffold and cells were placed in a bioreactor, where it matured to become a partially or fully transplantable organ. the work was called a " landmark ". the lab first stripped the cells away from a rat heart ( a process called " decellularization " ) and then injected rat stem cells into the decellulariz...
A) blood vessels
Context: parts of australia have been privileged to see dazzling lights in the night sky as the aurora australis ( known as the southern lights ) puts on a show this year. aurorae are significant in australian indigenous astronomical traditions. aboriginal people associate aurorae with fire, death, blood, and omens, sh...
D) magnesium in air
Context: classifications ; however, some more exotic phases are incompatible with certain chemical properties. a phase is a set of states of a chemical system that have similar bulk structural properties, over a range of conditions, such as pressure or temperature. physical properties, such as density and refractive in...
C) crystalline solids
Context: is a verma module transformed into another verma module by a selfequivalence? the answer is affirmative and the proof suggests a notion of standard object in the category of harish - chandra modules that coincides often, but not always, with the usual one. of several methods used by plants to promote outcrossi...
D) regeneration
Context: . species boundaries in plants may be weaker than in animals, and cross species hybrids are often possible. a familiar example is peppermint, mentha Γ— piperita, a sterile hybrid between mentha aquatica and spearmint, mentha spicata. the many cultivated varieties of wheat are the result of multiple inter - and ...
A) eggs and sperm
Context: ##itive material by selective exposure to a radiation source such as light. a photosensitive material is a material that experiences a change in its physical properties when exposed to a radiation source. if a photosensitive material is selectively exposed to radiation ( e. g. by masking some of the radiation ...
C) electromagnetic
Context: is said to have occurred. a chemical reaction is therefore a concept related to the " reaction " of a substance when it comes in close contact with another, whether as a mixture or a solution ; exposure to some form of energy, or both. it results in some energy exchange between the constituents of the reaction...
D) aqueous
Context: often injurious, at least with the plants on which i experimented. " an important adaptive benefit of outcrossing is that it allows the masking of deleterious mutations in the genome of progeny. this beneficial effect is also known as hybrid vigor or heterosis. once outcrossing is established, subsequent switc...
B) they disappear
Context: within a cell membrane that separates its cytoplasm from the extracellular space. a cell membrane consists of a lipid bilayer, including cholesterols that sit between phospholipids to maintain their fluidity at various temperatures. cell membranes are semipermeable, allowing small molecules such as oxygen, car...
C) vesicle
Context: a measurable and testable value of a vehicle ' s ability to perform in various conditions. performance can be considered in a wide variety of tasks, but it generally considers how quickly a car can accelerate ( e. g. standing start 1 / 4 mile elapsed time, 0 – 60 mph, etc. ), its top speed, how short and quick...
B) orthokinesis
Context: ##morphology studies the origin of landscapes. structural geology studies the deformation of rocks to produce mountains and lowlands. resource geology studies how energy resources can be obtained from minerals. environmental geology studies how pollution and contaminants affect soil and rock. mineralogy is the...
A) renewable or nonrenewable
Context: the cell ' s dna, or mitochondria, which generate adenosine triphosphate ( atp ) to power cellular processes. other organelles such as endoplasmic reticulum and golgi apparatus play a role in the synthesis and packaging of proteins, respectively. biomolecules such as proteins can be engulfed by lysosomes, anot...
C) rough & smooth
Context: ##ctonics, mountain ranges, volcanoes, and earthquakes are geological phenomena that can be explained in terms of physical and chemical processes in the earth ' s crust. beneath the earth ' s crust lies the mantle which is heated by the radioactive decay of heavy elements. the mantle is not quite solid and con...
A) seismic
Context: in isotope dating states : there are only three quite technical instances where a half - life changes, and these do not affect the dating methods : " only one technical exception occurs under terrestrial conditions, and this is not for an isotope used for dating.... the artificially - produced isotope, berylli...
D) carbon
Context: cortisol, corticosterone and aldosterone activate full - length glucocorticoid receptor ( gr ) from elephant shark, a cartilaginous fish belonging to the oldest group of jawed vertebrates. activation by aldosterone a mineralocorticoid, indicates partial divergence of elephant shark gr from the mr. progesterone...
A) complex placental connection
Context: it to divide into two daughter cells. these events include the duplication of its dna and some of its organelles, and the subsequent partitioning of its cytoplasm into two daughter cells in a process called cell division. in eukaryotes ( i. e., animal, plant, fungal, and protist cells ), there are two distinct...
C) cytokinesis
Context: in 2015 the fda approved the first gm salmon for commercial production and consumption. there is a scientific consensus that currently available food derived from gm crops poses no greater risk to human health than conventional food, but that each gm food needs to be tested on a case - by - case basis before i...
D) avoid offending foods
Context: stems mainly provide support to the leaves and reproductive structures, but can store water in succulent plants such as cacti, food as in potato tubers, or reproduce vegetatively as in the stolons of strawberry plants or in the process of layering. leaves gather sunlight and carry out photosynthesis. large, fl...
A) food
Context: elevons, flaps, and flaperons into wings to perform the aerodynamic purpose with the advantages of lower rcs for stealth, via simpler geometries and lower complexity ( mechanically simpler, fewer or no moving parts or surfaces, less maintenance ), and lower mass, cost ( up to 50 % less ), drag ( up to 15 % les...
B) thorax
Context: ##wi, turkana, dating from 3. 3 million years ago. stone tools diversified through the pleistocene period, which ended ~ 12, 000 years ago. the earliest evidence of warfare between two groups is recorded at the site of nataruk in turkana, kenya, where human skeletons with major traumatic injuries to the head, ...
A) lucy
Context: or magnitude. magnitudes are always non - negative real numbers, and to any non - zero number there belongs a positive real number, its absolute value. for example, the absolute value of βˆ’3 and the absolute value of 3 are both equal to 3. this is written in symbols as | βˆ’3 | = 3 and | 3 | = 3. in general, any ...
D) empirical formula
Context: wave, carrying an information signal, occupies a range of frequencies. the information in a radio signal is usually concentrated in narrow frequency bands called sidebands ( sb ) just above and below the carrier frequency. the width in hertz of the frequency range that the radio signal occupies, the highest fr...
C) dispersion
Context: consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. over 1. 5 million living animal species have been described β€” of which around 1 million are insects β€” but it has been estimated there are over ...
B) dna
Context: single carbon atom can form four single covalent bonds such as in methane, two double covalent bonds such as in carbon dioxide ( co2 ), or a triple covalent bond such as in carbon monoxide ( co ). moreover, carbon can form very long chains of interconnecting carbon – carbon bonds such as octane or ring - like ...
C) water
Context: river - beds ), but not for where there may be large obstructions in the ground. an open caisson that is used in soft grounds or high water tables, where open trench excavations are impractical, can also be used to install deep manholes, pump stations and reception / launch pits for microtunnelling, pipe jacki...
C) gas bubble holes
Context: cortisol, corticosterone and aldosterone activate full - length glucocorticoid receptor ( gr ) from elephant shark, a cartilaginous fish belonging to the oldest group of jawed vertebrates. activation by aldosterone a mineralocorticoid, indicates partial divergence of elephant shark gr from the mr. progesterone...
B) african elephant
Context: english ) ) are concerned respectively with childbirth and the female reproductive and associated organs. reproductive medicine and fertility medicine are generally practiced by gynecological specialists. pediatrics ( ae ) or paediatrics ( be ) is devoted to the care of infants, children, and adolescents. like...
A) placenta
Context: english ) ) are concerned respectively with childbirth and the female reproductive and associated organs. reproductive medicine and fertility medicine are generally practiced by gynecological specialists. pediatrics ( ae ) or paediatrics ( be ) is devoted to the care of infants, children, and adolescents. like...
A) fat
Context: background : african swine fever is among the most devastating viral diseases of pigs. despite nearly a century of research, there is still no safe and effective vaccine available. the current situation is that either vaccines are safe but not effective, or they are effective but not safe. findings : the asf v...
D) animals to humans
Context: is opened and the dna is purified. the gene is separated by using restriction enzymes to cut the dna into fragments or polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) to amplify up the gene segment. these segments can then be extracted through gel electrophoresis. if the chosen gene or the donor organism ' s genome has been...
A) dna
Context: is said to have occurred. a chemical reaction is therefore a concept related to the " reaction " of a substance when it comes in close contact with another, whether as a mixture or a solution ; exposure to some form of energy, or both. it results in some energy exchange between the constituents of the reaction...
C) chemical equations
Context: also known as the gradient or slope. when two rivers of different sizes have the same fall, the larger river has the quicker flow, as its retardation by friction against its bed and banks is less in proportion to its volume than is the case with the smaller river. the fall available in a section of a river app...
A) input distance
Context: participates as a consumer, resource, or both in consumer – resource interactions, which form the core of food chains or food webs. there are different trophic levels within any food web, with the lowest level being the primary producers ( or autotrophs ) such as plants and algae that convert energy and inorga...
A) food chain
Context: the strictest definition of " plant " includes only the " land plants " or embryophytes, which include seed plants ( gymnosperms, including the pines, and flowering plants ) and the free - sporing cryptogams including ferns, clubmosses, liverworts, hornworts and mosses. embryophytes are multicellular eukaryote...
D) asexual reproduction
Context: frequent itemsets form a polytope and can be found and analyzed with linear programming. may not be defined for every possible value of its domain. for example, in the real numbers one cannot divide by zero or take square roots of negative numbers. the values for which an operation is defined form a set called...
D) mode
Context: of tool usage was found in ethiopia within the great rift valley, dating back to 2. 5 million years ago. the earliest methods of stone tool making, known as the oldowan " industry ", date back to at least 2. 3 million years ago. this era of stone tool use is called the paleolithic, or " old stone age ", and sp...
B) rocks
Context: in which case individual particles retain their shape ) or pulverization ( which involves grinding the particles themselves to a smaller size ). milling is generally done by mechanical means, including attrition ( which is particle - to - particle collision that results in agglomerate break up or particle shea...
D) the mole
Context: protist cells ), there are two distinct types of cell division : mitosis and meiosis. mitosis is part of the cell cycle, in which replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei. cell division gives rise to genetically identical cells in which the total number of chromosomes is maintained. in general,...
A) nondisjunction
Context: stems mainly provide support to the leaves and reproductive structures, but can store water in succulent plants such as cacti, food as in potato tubers, or reproduce vegetatively as in the stolons of strawberry plants or in the process of layering. leaves gather sunlight and carry out photosynthesis. large, fl...
D) reproduction
Context: cytokinesis ). the natural cytokinin zeatin was discovered in corn, zea mays, and is a derivative of the purine adenine. zeatin is produced in roots and transported to shoots in the xylem where it promotes cell division, bud development, and the greening of chloroplasts. the gibberelins, such as gibberelic aci...
D) tubular ducts
Context: river valley during ancient times. the papyrus was harvested by field workers and brought to processing centers where it was cut into thin strips. the strips were then laid - out side by side and covered in plant resin. the second layer of strips was laid on perpendicularly, then both pressed together until th...
B) in the oceans
Context: listen ), generally in that order, although auscultation occurs prior to percussion and palpation for abdominal assessments. the clinical examination involves the study of : abdomen and rectum cardiovascular ( heart and blood vessels ) general appearance of the patient and specific indicators of disease ( nutr...
C) thyroid gland
Context: the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including molecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. = = = water = = = life arose from the earth ' s first ocean, which formed some 3. 8 billion years ago. since then, water con...
C) waves
Context: ; and the wafer surfaces are sufficiently clean. the most stringent criteria for wafer bonding is usually the direct fusion wafer bonding since even one or more small particulates can render the bonding unsuccessful. in comparison, wafer bonding methods that use intermediary layers are often far more forgiving...
B) salivary glands
Context: the hun tian theory ), or as being without substance while the heavenly bodies float freely ( the hsuan yeh theory ), the earth was at all times flat, although perhaps bulging up slightly. the model of an egg was often used by chinese astronomers such as zhang heng ( 78 – 139 ad ) to describe the heavens as sp...
D) ovovivipary
Context: eat them. plants and other photosynthetic organisms are at the base of most food chains because they use the energy from the sun and nutrients from the soil and atmosphere, converting them into a form that can be used by animals. this is what ecologists call the first trophic level. the modern forms of the maj...
A) mouth
Context: pectin and xyloglucan from which the land plant cell wall is constructed. vascular land plants make lignin, a polymer used to strengthen the secondary cell walls of xylem tracheids and vessels to keep them from collapsing when a plant sucks water through them under water stress. lignin is also used in other ce...
A) two months later
Context: and nucleotides. carbohydrates include monomers and polymers of sugars. lipids are the only class of macromolecules that are not made up of polymers. they include steroids, phospholipids, and fats, largely nonpolar and hydrophobic ( water - repelling ) substances. proteins are the most diverse of the macromole...
A) titins
Context: ". = = extraction = = extractive metallurgy is the practice of removing valuable metals from an ore and refining the extracted raw metals into a purer form. in order to convert a metal oxide or sulphide to a purer metal, the ore must be reduced physically, chemically, or electrolytically. extractive metallurgi...
B) natural resources
Context: in the muon storage rings the muons are subject to a very large radial acceleration. the equivalence principle implies a large gravity force. it has no effect on the muon lifetime. the gravitational acceleration of antimatter, $ \ bar g $, has yet to be directly measured but could change our understanding of g...
C) centripetal force
Context: cell or tissue growth in vitro. a physiological environment can consist of many different parameters such as temperature, pressure, oxygen or carbon dioxide concentration, or osmolality of fluid environment, and it can extend to all kinds of biological, chemical or mechanical stimuli. therefore, there are syst...
D) temperature
Context: energy they need to exist. plants, algae and cyanobacteria are the major groups of organisms that carry out photosynthesis, a process that uses the energy of sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars that can be used both as a source of chemical energy and of organic molecules that are used in t...
B) photosynthesis
Context: and nucleotides. carbohydrates include monomers and polymers of sugars. lipids are the only class of macromolecules that are not made up of polymers. they include steroids, phospholipids, and fats, largely nonpolar and hydrophobic ( water - repelling ) substances. proteins are the most diverse of the macromole...
A) viruses
Context: ##l ( active ingredient in cannabis ), caffeine, morphine and nicotine come directly from plants. others are simple derivatives of botanical natural products. for example, the pain killer aspirin is the acetyl ester of salicylic acid, originally isolated from the bark of willow trees, and a wide range of opiat...
A) aldehydes
Context: in a voltaic cell, positive ( negative ) ions flow from the low ( high ) potential electrode to the high ( low ) potential electrode, driven by an ` electromotive force ' which points in opposite direction and overcomes the electric force. similarly in a superconductor charge flows in direction opposite to tha...
A) power plants
Context: tubers in potato is one example. particularly in arctic or alpine habitats, where opportunities for fertilisation of flowers by animals are rare, plantlets or bulbs, may develop instead of flowers, replacing sexual reproduction with asexual reproduction and giving rise to clonal populations genetically identic...
B) internal
Context: pigment chlorophyll a. chlorophyll a ( as well as its plant and green algal - specific cousin chlorophyll b ) absorbs light in the blue - violet and orange / red parts of the spectrum while reflecting and transmitting the green light that we see as the characteristic colour of these organisms. the energy in th...
D) electromagnetic spectrum
Context: cell - culture scaffolds the material needed for each application is different, and dependent on the desired mechanical properties of the material. tissue engineering of long bone defects for example, will require a rigid scaffold with a compressive strength similar to that of cortical bone ( 100 - 150 mpa ), ...
B) leucoplasts