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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...
D) decrease
Context: ion or cation. when an atom gains an electron and thus has more electrons than protons, the atom is a negatively charged ion or anion. cations and anions can form a crystalline lattice of neutral salts, such as the na + and cl− ions forming sodium chloride, or nacl. examples of polyatomic ions that do not spli...
D) spectator ion
Context: lines are dimension lines and are used for dimensioning, projecting, extending, or leaders. a harder pencil should be used, such as a 2h pencil. type c lines are used for breaks when the whole object is not shown. these are freehand drawn and only for short breaks. 2h pencil type d lines are similar to type c,...
D) a contour line
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) gametophytes
Context: from the insignificant drainage areas of streams rising on high ground near the coast and flowing straight down into the sea, up to immense tracts of continents, where rivers rising on the slopes of mountain ranges far inland have to traverse vast stretches of valleys and plains before reaching the ocean. the ...
B) mid-ocean ridges
Context: for nucleotide synthesis. hence, unfused myeloma cells die, as they cannot produce nucleotides by the de novo or salvage pathways because they lack hgprt. removal of the unfused myeloma cells is necessary because they have the potential to outgrow other cells, especially weakly established hybridomas. unfused ...
D) pyrogens
Context: by ancestry rather than superficial characteristics. while scientists do not always agree on how to classify organisms, molecular phylogenetics, which uses dna sequences as data, has driven many recent revisions along evolutionary lines and is likely to continue to do so. the dominant classification system is ...
C) trees
Context: hazard. many of the scientists working on radioactivity died of cancer as a result of their exposure. radioactive patent medicines mostly disappeared, but other applications of radioactive materials persisted, such as the use of radium salts to produce glowing dials on meters. as the atom came to be better und...
B) radioactivity
Context: , there are many biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. in addition to biomolecules, eukaryotic cells have specialized structures called organelles that have their own lipid bilayers or are spatially units. these organelles include the cell nucleus, which contains most of the cell ' s dna, or mitocho...
A) lysosome
Context: engineering. a wide range of instrumentation is used by electrical engineers. for simple control circuits and alarms, a basic multimeter measuring voltage, current, and resistance may suffice. where time - varying signals need to be studied, the oscilloscope is also an ubiquitous instrument. in rf engineering ...
C) volts
Context: the standard theory of ideal gases ignores the interaction of the gas particles with the thermal radiation ( photon gas ) that fills the otherwise vacuum space between them. this is an unphysical feature since every material absorbs and radiates thermal energy. this interaction may be important in gases since ...
A) noble
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...
B) medicines
Context: likely that protists share a common ancestor ( the last eukaryotic common ancestor ), protists by themselves do not constitute a separate clade as some protists may be more closely related to plants, fungi, or animals than they are to other protists. like groupings such as algae, invertebrates, or protozoans, ...
D) symbiotic
Context: becomes quite gentle. accordingly, in large basins, rivers in most cases begin as torrents with a variable flow, and end as gently flowing rivers with a comparatively regular discharge. the irregular flow of rivers throughout their course forms one of the main difficulties in devising works for mitigating inun...
B) air masses
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...
D) peristalsis
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 ...
D) coal
Context: their mechanical properties. = = tissue culture = = in many cases, creation of functional tissues and biological structures in vitro requires extensive culturing to promote survival, growth and inducement of functionality. in general, the basic requirements of cells must be maintained in culture, which include...
A) proteins
Context: medical purposes. cells are often ' seeded ' into these structures capable of supporting three - dimensional tissue formation. scaffolds mimic the extracellular matrix of the native tissue, recapitulating the in vivo milieu and allowing cells to influence their own microenvironments. they usually serve at leas...
B) spinal cord
Context: observations of the ly - alpha forest at z ~ 3 reveal an average metallicity z ~ 0. 01 z _ solar. the high - redshift supernovae that polluted the igm also accelerated relativistic electrons. since the energy density of the cmb scales as ( 1 + z ) ^ 4, at high redshift these electrons cool via inverse compton ...
B) gamma rays
Context: defective body parts. inside the body, artificial heart valves are in common use with artificial hearts and lungs seeing less common use but under active technology development. other medical devices and aids that can be considered prosthetics include hearing aids, artificial eyes, palatal obturator, gastric b...
D) hormones
Context: by assuming that the kinetic energy, potential energy, momentum, and some other physical quantities of a particle exist in the field out of the particle, the schrodinger equation is an equation describing field of a particle, but not the particle itself. g. spectroscopy and chromatography. scientists engaged i...
C) temperature
Context: and still use the same basic biological methods. in brewing, malted grains ( containing enzymes ) convert starch from grains into sugar and then adding specific yeasts to produce beer. in this process, carbohydrates in the grains broke down into alcohols, such as ethanol. later, other cultures produced the pro...
D) digestion
Context: the valuable metals into individual constituents. = = metal and its alloys = = much effort has been placed on understanding iron – carbon alloy system, which includes steels and cast irons. plain carbon steels ( those that contain essentially only carbon as an alloying element ) are used in low - cost, high - ...
C) boron
Context: the casimir stress on a spherical shell in de sitter background for massless scalar field satisfying dirichlet boundary conditions on the shell is calculated. the metric is written in conformally flat form. although the metric is time dependent no particles are created. the casimir stress is calculated for ins...
A) hatched from eggs
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 ...
B) evolution
Context: ##drate - rich plant products such as barley ( beer ), rice ( sake ) and grapes ( wine ). native americans have used various plants as ways of treating illness or disease for thousands of years. this knowledge native americans have on plants has been recorded by enthnobotanists and then in turn has been used b...
C) salicylic acid
Context: scale. thus, solutions that have a low ph have a high hydronium ion concentration and can be said to be more acidic. the other measurement, based on the brønsted – lowry definition, is the acid dissociation constant ( ka ), which measures the relative ability of a substance to act as an acid under the brønsted...
C) 7
Context: reversing the flow of time between casimir plates raises the question of whether or not a recently deceased, intact organism could be brought back to life. the odds are not good. , tertiary, and quaternary ). the similarities among all known present - day species indicate that they have diverged through the pr...
C) fossils
Context: the tests, assays, and procedures needed for providing the specific services. subspecialties include transfusion medicine, cellular pathology, clinical chemistry, hematology, clinical microbiology and clinical immunology. clinical neurophysiology is concerned with testing the physiology or function of the cent...
A) nerves
Context: invertebrates, or protozoans, the protist grouping is not a formal taxonomic group but is used for convenience. most protists are unicellular ; these are called microbial eukaryotes. plants are mainly multicellular organisms, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom plantae, which would exclude f...
C) archaeplastida
Context: for example an increase in income will shift the demand curve for a normal good outward relative to the origin, as in the figure. all determinants are predominantly taken as constant factors of demand and supply. supply is the relation between the price of a good and the quantity available for sale at that pri...
A) 1
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...
B) attract animals to disperse their seeds
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...
B) creep
Context: = = when 0 is said to be neither positive nor negative, the following phrases may refer to the sign of a number : a number is positive if it is greater than zero. a number is negative if it is less than zero. a number is non - negative if it is greater than or equal to zero. a number is non - positive if it is...
D) trailing zeros
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...
C) colder
Context: the valuable metals into individual constituents. = = metal and its alloys = = much effort has been placed on understanding iron – carbon alloy system, which includes steels and cast irons. plain carbon steels ( those that contain essentially only carbon as an alloying element ) are used in low - cost, high - ...
B) catalysts
Context: ##drate - rich plant products such as barley ( beer ), rice ( sake ) and grapes ( wine ). native americans have used various plants as ways of treating illness or disease for thousands of years. this knowledge native americans have on plants has been recorded by enthnobotanists and then in turn has been used b...
D) salicylic acid
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) inorganic molecules
Context: beacon transmits two signals simultaneously on different frequencies. a directional antenna transmits a beam of radio waves that rotates like a lighthouse at a fixed rate, 30 times per second. when the directional beam is facing north, an omnidirectional antenna transmits a pulse. by measuring the difference i...
C) amplitude
Context: some references for the breaking strength of fused silica fibers compiled in 1999. the action potential is widely considered a purely electrical phenomenon. however, one also finds mechanical and thermal changes that can be observed experimentally. in particular, nerve membranes become thicker and axons contra...
B) slow fibers
Context: sequences. genetic engineering is also used to create animal models of human diseases. genetically modified mice are the most common genetically engineered animal model. they have been used to study and model cancer ( the oncomouse ), obesity, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, substance abuse, anxiety, aging...
D) alleles
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) chlorophyll
Context: behavioral responses to different stimuli, one can understand something about how those stimuli are processed. lewandowski & strohmetz ( 2009 ) reviewed a collection of innovative uses of behavioral measurement in psychology including behavioral traces, behavioral observations, and behavioral choice. behaviora...
B) conditioning
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...
C) moment magnitude scale
Context: is also higher at high temperature, as shown by carnot ' s theorem. in a conventional metallic engine, much of the energy released from the fuel must be dissipated as waste heat in order to prevent a meltdown of the metallic parts. despite all of these desirable properties, such engines are not in production b...
B) ph
Context: of several types of apomixis that occur in plants. apomixis can also happen in a seed, producing a seed that contains an embryo genetically identical to the parent. most sexually reproducing organisms are diploid, with paired chromosomes, but doubling of their chromosome number may occur due to errors in cytok...
C) meiosis
Context: is the electrostatic force of attraction between them. for example, sodium ( na ), a metal, loses one electron to become an na + cation while chlorine ( cl ), a non - metal, gains this electron to become cl−. the ions are held together due to electrostatic attraction, and that compound sodium chloride ( nacl )...
C) an ionic bond
Context: and still use the same basic biological methods. in brewing, malted grains ( containing enzymes ) convert starch from grains into sugar and then adding specific yeasts to produce beer. in this process, carbohydrates in the grains broke down into alcohols, such as ethanol. later, other cultures produced the pro...
D) ethanol
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...
C) active transport
Context: as dental implants and synthetic bones. hydroxyapatite, the natural mineral component of bone, has been made synthetically from a number of biological and chemical sources and can be formed into ceramic materials. orthopedic implants made from these materials bond readily to bone and other tissues in the body ...
C) tendons
Context: vehicle crashes. fuel economy / emissions : fuel economy is the measured fuel efficiency of the vehicle in miles per gallon or kilometers per liter. emissions - testing covers the measurement of vehicle emissions, including hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides ( nox ), carbon monoxide ( co ), carbon dioxide ( co2 ), ...
B) half (fifty)
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...
B) light
Context: sequences. genetic engineering is also used to create animal models of human diseases. genetically modified mice are the most common genetically engineered animal model. they have been used to study and model cancer ( the oncomouse ), obesity, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, substance abuse, anxiety, aging...
D) they give us an idea of what the real thing is like
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...
D) scientific theories
Context: light and cold extrasolar planets such as ogle 2005 - blg - 390lb, a 5. 5 earth - mass planet detected via microlensing, could be frequent in the galaxy according to some preliminary results from microlensing experiments. these planets can be frozen rocky - or ocean - planets, situated beyond the snow line and...
C) water
Context: the action potential is widely considered a purely electrical phenomenon. however, one also finds mechanical and thermal changes that can be observed experimentally. in particular, nerve membranes become thicker and axons contract. the spatial length of the action potential can be quite large, ranging from mil...
C) axons
Context: known as " algae " have unique organelles known as chloroplasts. chloroplasts are thought to be descended from cyanobacteria that formed endosymbiotic relationships with ancient plant and algal ancestors. chloroplasts and cyanobacteria contain the blue - green pigment chlorophyll a. chlorophyll a ( as well as ...
B) chlorophyll
Context: as subjects perceive the sensory world, different stimuli elicit a number of neural representations. here, a subjective distance between stimuli is defined, measuring the degree of similarity between the underlying representations. as an example, the subjective distance between different locations in space is ...
A) 93
Context: soil erosion. plants are crucial to the future of human society as they provide food, oxygen, biochemicals, and products for people, as well as creating and preserving soil. historically, all living things were classified as either animals or plants and botany covered the study of all organisms not considered ...
C) angiosperms
Context: time - dependent distribution of the global extinction of megafauna is compared with the growth of human population. there is no correlation between the two processes. furthermore, the size of human population and its growth rate were far too small to have any significant impact on the environment and on the l...
D) blue whale
Context: electrons, creating radicals. most radicals are comparatively reactive, but some, such as nitric oxide ( no ) can be stable. the " inert " or noble gas elements ( helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon ) are composed of lone atoms as their smallest discrete unit, but the other isolated chemical elements...
B) nonmetals
Context: the magnetization of superconducting samples is influenced by their porosity. in addition to structural modifications and improved cooling, the presence of pores also plays a role in trapping magnetic flux. pores have an impact on the irreversibility field, the full penetration field, and the remnant magnetiza...
B) meissner effect
Context: and cell phones are a particular challenge because the stream of data can interfere with focusing and learning. although these technologies affect adults too, young people may be more influenced by it as their developing brains can easily become habituated to switching tasks and become unaccustomed to sustaini...
C) solidify
Context: the walls of a victim ' s stomach. toxicology, a subfield of forensic chemistry, focuses on detecting and identifying drugs, poisons, and other toxic substances in biological samples. forensic toxicologists work on cases involving drug overdoses, poisoning, and substance abuse. their work is critical in determ...
A) immune
Context: , tertiary, and quaternary ). the similarities among all known present - day species indicate that they have diverged through the process of evolution from their common ancestor. biologists regard the ubiquity of the genetic code as evidence of universal common descent for all bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes...
C) homology
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 ...
A) embryo
Context: according to brønsted – lowry acid – base theory, acids are substances that donate a positive hydrogen ion to another substance in a chemical reaction ; by extension, a base is the substance which receives that hydrogen ion. a third common theory is lewis acid – base theory, which is based on the formation of ...
C) monoprotic acid
Context: ##idermal electronics mirror those of skin to allow them to perform in this same way. like skin, epidermal electronics are ultrathin ( h < 100 μm ), low - modulus ( e ≈70 kpa ), and lightweight ( < 10 mg / cm2 ), enabling them to conform to the skin without applying strain. conformal contact and proper adhesio...
C) epithelial cells
Context: to a region of deoxyribonucleic acid ( dna ) that carries genetic information that controls form or function of an organism. dna is composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. it is found as linear chromosomes in eukaryotes, and circular chromosomes in prokaryotes....
B) nuclear enevelope
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...
A) stress
Context: used by pharmaceutical companies as a way of drug discovery. plants can synthesise coloured dyes and pigments such as the anthocyanins responsible for the red colour of red wine, yellow weld and blue woad used together to produce lincoln green, indoxyl, source of the blue dye indigo traditionally used to dye d...
C) skin cancer
Context: ##yotic microorganisms. typically a few micrometers in length, bacteria have a number of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals. bacteria were among the first life forms to appear on earth, and are present in most of its habitats. bacteria inhabit soil, water, acidic hot springs, radioactive waste, a...
A) trophic
Context: fluid dynamics video demonstrating the evolution of dynamic stall on a wind turbine blade. 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...
B) notochord
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...
C) homeostasis
Context: emitter rather than returning a diffuse signal detectable at many angles. the effect is sometimes called " glitter " after the very brief signal seen when the reflected beam passes across a detector. it can be difficult for the radar operator to distinguish between a glitter event and a digital glitch in the p...
B) cornea
Context: ##ning an animal for its hide, and even forming other tools out of softer materials such as bone and wood. the earliest stone tools were irrelevant, being little more than a fractured rock. in the acheulian era, beginning approximately 1. 65 million years ago, methods of working these stones into specific shap...
A) superposition
Context: still a complex and relatively expensive material to produce. polymers on the other hand can be produced in huge volumes, with a great variety of material characteristics. mems devices can be made from polymers by processes such as injection molding, embossing or stereolithography and are especially well suite...
C) fillings
Context: as iss expeditions. expedition crew members typically spend approximately six months on the iss. the initial expedition crew size was three, temporarily decreased to two following the columbia disaster. between may 2009 and until the retirement of the space shuttle, the expedition crew size has been six crew m...
A) neotropicum
Context: transport chain, which is a series of four protein complexes that transfer electrons from one complex to another, thereby releasing energy from nadh and fadh2 that is coupled to the pumping of protons ( hydrogen ions ) across the inner mitochondrial membrane ( chemiosmosis ), which generates a proton motive fo...
A) membrane
Context: on a large scale provided protection from insect pests or tolerance to herbicides. fungal and virus resistant crops have also been developed or are in development. this makes the insect and weed management of crops easier and can indirectly increase crop yield. gm crops that directly improve yield by accelerat...
C) microevolution
Context: has rest mass and volume ( it takes up space ) and is made up of particles. the particles that make up matter have rest mass as well – not all particles have rest mass, such as the photon. matter can be a pure chemical substance or a mixture of substances. = = = = atom = = = = the atom is the basic unit of che...
C) density
Context: i transform the trapdoor problem of hfe into a linear algebra problem. a letter to the editor shortly summing up ten or so years of research into the h - index. metal hydrides have earlier been suggested for utilization in solar cells. with this as a motivation we have prepared thin films of yttrium hydride by...
B) brain
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...
C) nitrogenous waste
Context: , social and economic status, habits ( including diet, medications, tobacco, alcohol ). the physical examination is the examination of the patient for medical signs of disease that are objective and observable, in contrast to symptoms that are volunteered by the patient and are not necessarily objectively obse...
D) tongue
Context: quantum well of algaas / gaas is very important to study transport properties of electrons due to its wider application in electronic devices. hence, the double well of algaas / gaas with triple barrier is taken to study transmission probability. transmission probability is found to decrease with the increase ...
C) electrical energy
Context: not completely stable as each water molecule continuously dissociates into hydrogen and hydroxyl ions before reforming into a water molecule again. in pure water, the number of hydrogen ions balances ( or equals ) the number of hydroxyl ions, resulting in a ph that is neutral. = = = organic compounds = = = org...
D) catalyst gets poisoned
Context: energy is no doubt an intuitive concept. following a previous analysis on the nature of elementary particles and associated elementary quantum fields, the peculiar status and role of energy is scrutinised further at elementary and larger scales. energy physical characterisation shows that it is a primordial co...
D) potential energy
Context: activation of g protein - coupled receptors can initiate second messenger cascades. the process by which a chemical or physical signal is transmitted through a cell as a series of molecular events is called signal transduction. = = = cell cycle = = = the cell cycle is a series of events that take place in a ce...
D) equinox
Context: techniques that provide heart and lung support. it is used primarily to support the lungs for a prolonged but still temporary timeframe ( 1 – 30 days ) and allow for recovery from reversible diseases. robert bartlett is known as the father of ecmo and performed the first treatment of a newborn using an ecmo ma...
B) lungs
Context: , characterizing organs as predominantly yin or yang, and understood the relationship between the pulse, the heart, and the flow of blood in the body centuries before it became accepted in the west. little evidence survives of how ancient indian cultures around the indus river understood nature, but some of th...
D) intestines
Context: hand axes emerged. this early stone age is described as the lower paleolithic. the middle paleolithic, approximately 300, 000 years ago, saw the introduction of the prepared - core technique, where multiple blades could be rapidly formed from a single core stone. the upper paleolithic, beginning approximately ...
D) maxilla
Context: , there are many biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. in addition to biomolecules, eukaryotic cells have specialized structures called organelles that have their own lipid bilayers or are spatially units. these organelles include the cell nucleus, which contains most of the cell ' s dna, or mitocho...
C) myofibrils
Context: covid - 19, also known as novel coronavirus disease, is a highly contagious disease that first surfaced in china in late 2019. sars - cov - 2 is a coronavirus that belongs to the vast family of coronaviruses that causes this disease. the sickness originally appeared in wuhan, china in december 2019 and quickly...
C) viruses
Context: directly on the skin is currently available as a sole study source. the significance of epidermal electronics involves their mechanical properties, which resemble those of skin. the skin can be modeled as bilayer, composed of an epidermis having young ' s modulus ( e ) of 2 - 80 kpa and thickness of 0. 3 – 3 m...
D) epidermis and dermis
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) electrons
Context: used by pharmaceutical companies as a way of drug discovery. plants can synthesise coloured dyes and pigments such as the anthocyanins responsible for the red colour of red wine, yellow weld and blue woad used together to produce lincoln green, indoxyl, source of the blue dye indigo traditionally used to dye d...
B) carbon
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...
B) placenta
Context: reaction to proceed more rapidly without being consumed by it — by reducing the amount of activation energy needed to convert reactants into products. enzymes also allow the regulation of the rate of a metabolic reaction, for example in response to changes in the cell ' s environment or to signals from other c...
B) anaerobic respiration
Context: in one or more of these kinds of structures, it is invariably accompanied by an increase or decrease of energy of the substances involved. some energy is transferred between the surroundings and the reactants of the reaction in the form of heat or light ; thus the products of a reaction may have more or less e...
D) mass
Context: are more expensive than cell phones ; but their advantage is that, unlike a cell phone which is limited to areas covered by cell towers, satphones can be used over most or all of the geographical area of the earth. in order for the phone to communicate with a satellite using a small omnidirectional antenna, fi...
B) the north pole