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and the creation of genetically modified crops. = = = epigenetics = = = epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene function that cannot be explained by changes in the underlying dna sequence but cause the organism ' s genes to behave ( or " express themselves " ) differently. one example of epigenet... | C) population genetics |
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to epidemiology and evidence - based medicine. cytology is the microscopic study of individual cells. embryology is the study of the early development of organisms. endocrinology is the study of hormones and their effect throughout the body of animals. epidemiology is the study of the demographics of disease p... | A) endocrine glands |
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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 ... | A) photosynthesis |
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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... | D) kinetic energy |
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shaping the cell. cell membranes are involved in various cellular processes such as cell adhesion, storing electrical energy, and cell signalling and serve as the attachment surface for several extracellular structures such as a cell wall, glycocalyx, and cytoskeleton. within the cytoplasm of a cell, there are... | C) cytoskeleton |
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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) transgenic |
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is the scientific study of inheritance. mendelian inheritance, specifically, is the process by which genes and traits are passed on from parents to offspring. it has several principles. the first is that genetic characteristics, alleles, are discrete and have alternate forms ( e. g., purple vs. white or tall v... | A) allele frequecy |
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. long - term memory allows us to store information over prolonged periods ( days, weeks, years ). we do not yet know the practical limit of long - term memory capacity. short - term memory allows us to store information over short time scales ( seconds or minutes ). memory is also often grouped into declarati... | A) lifetime |
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current in passing over from one concave bank to the next on the opposite side. the lowering of such a shoal by dredging merely effects a temporary deepening, for it soon forms again from the causes which produced it. the removal, moreover, of the rocky obstructions at rapids, though increasing the depth and e... | B) synovial |
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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... | B) nucleic acids |
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". = = 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... | C) hydrometallurgy |
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polyatomic ions that do not split up during acid – base reactions are hydroxide ( oh− ) and phosphate ( po43− ). plasma is composed of gaseous matter that has been completely ionized, usually through high temperature. = = = acidity and basicity = = = a substance can often be classified as an acid or a base. th... | B) water |
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##tion, and pasteurization in order to become products that can be sold. there are three levels of food processing : primary, secondary, and tertiary. primary food processing involves turning agricultural products into other products that can be turned into food, secondary food processing is the making of food... | A) digestive |
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diploid embryo sporophyte within its tissues for at least part of its life, even in the seed plants, where the gametophyte itself is nurtured by its parent sporophyte. other groups of organisms that were previously studied by botanists include bacteria ( now studied in bacteriology ), fungi ( mycology ) – incl... | B) leafy plants |
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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) compressibility |
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small category. any ordinal number can be seen as a category when viewed as an ordered set. any monoid ( any algebraic structure with a single associative binary operation and an identity element ) forms a small category with a single object x. ( here, x is any fixed set. ) the morphisms from x to x are precis... | D) germline and somatic |
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endothermic reactions, the reaction absorbs heat from the surroundings. chemical reactions are invariably not possible unless the reactants surmount an energy barrier known as the activation energy. the speed of a chemical reaction ( at given temperature t ) is related to the activation energy e, by the boltzm... | D) thermochemical equations |
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##s ( sometimes called pressurized caissons ), which penetrate soft mud, are bottomless boxes sealed at the top and filled with compressed air to keep water and mud out at depth. an airlock allows access to the chamber. workers, called sandhogs in american english, move mud and rock debris ( called muck ) from... | D) mollusks |
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the value of excess charge in the kernel of massive body ( and the opposite in sign excess charge at the surface ) caused by the influence of gravitational forces is determined.
strangelets ( stable lumps of quark matter ) can have masses and charges much higher than those of nuclei, but have very low charge -... | B) work |
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one of the greatest discoveries of modern times is that of the expanding universe, almost invariably attributed to hubble ( 1929 ). what is not widely known is that the original treatise by lemaitre ( 1927 ) contained a rich fusion of both theory and of observation. stiglers law of eponymy is yet again affirme... | C) physics |
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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) cell membrane |
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be at most one morphism between any two objects. the existence of identity morphisms and the composability of the morphisms are guaranteed by the reflexivity and the transitivity of the preorder. by the same argument, any partially ordered set and any equivalence relation can be seen as a small category. any o... | C) segmented |
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to the ground is called a downlink. communication satellite – an artificial satellite used as a telecommunications relay to transmit data between widely separated points on earth. these are used because the microwaves used for telecommunications travel by line of sight and so cannot propagate around the curve ... | D) interrupter |
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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.... | C) chromosome |
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earth. it emphasizes the study of how humans use and interact with freshwater supplies. study of water ' s movement is closely related to geomorphology and other branches of earth science. applied hydrology involves engineering to maintain aquatic environments and distribute water supplies. subdisciplines of h... | D) low salt concentration |
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##ulating the liquid below from the cold air above. water has the capacity to absorb energy, giving it a higher specific heat capacity than other solvents such as ethanol. thus, a large amount of energy is needed to break the hydrogen bonds between water molecules to convert liquid water into water vapor. as a... | B) residence time |
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) of the mass of all organisms, with calcium, phosphorus, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium constituting essentially all the remainder. different elements can combine to form compounds such as water, which is fundamental to life. biochemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to livi... | C) biochemistry |
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is the scientific study of inheritance. mendelian inheritance, specifically, is the process by which genes and traits are passed on from parents to offspring. it has several principles. the first is that genetic characteristics, alleles, are discrete and have alternate forms ( e. g., purple vs. white or tall v... | D) ethical considerdations |
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the only group of three non - overlapping channels in north america. however, whether the overlap is significant depends on physical spacing. channels that are four apart interfere a negligible amount – much less than reusing channels ( which causes co - channel interference ) – if transmitters are at least a ... | D) a community |
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the fundamental constants could not influence different elements uniformly, and a comparison between each of the elements ' resulting unique chronological timescales would then give inconsistent time estimates. in refutation of young earth claims of inconstant decay rates affecting the reliability of radiometr... | C) half-life |
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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 )... | A) valence shell |
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28 size spectra of extensive air showers from 7 different experiments are analysed consistently. they are fitted by adjusting either 4 or 5 parameters : knee position, power law exponents above and below the knee, overall intensity and, in addition, a parameter describing the smoothness of the bend. the residu... | B) two pairs |
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in mosses and hornworts. the root system and the shoot system are interdependent – the usually nonphotosynthetic root system depends on the shoot system for food, and the usually photosynthetic shoot system depends on water and minerals from the root system. cells in each system are capable of creating cells o... | B) the soil |
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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... | C) elastic |
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##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) penguins |
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the decay rate for isotopes subject to extreme pressures, those differences were too small to significantly impact date estimates. the constancy of the decay rates is also governed by first principles in quantum mechanics, wherein any deviation in the rate would require a change in the fundamental constants. a... | D) accuracy |
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a rydberg gas of no entrained in a supersonic molecular beam releases electrons as it evolves to form an ultracold plasma. the size of this signal, compared with that extracted by the subsequent application of a pulsed electric field, determines the absolute magnitude of the plasma charge. this information, co... | A) electron affinity |
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is the scientific study of inheritance. mendelian inheritance, specifically, is the process by which genes and traits are passed on from parents to offspring. it has several principles. the first is that genetic characteristics, alleles, are discrete and have alternate forms ( e. g., purple vs. white or tall v... | A) equilibrium population |
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##ilage generated without the use of exogenous scaffold material. in this methodology, all material in the construct is cellular produced directly by the cells. bioartificial heart : doris taylor ' s lab constructed a biocompatible rat heart by re - cellularising a de - cellularised rat heart. this scaffold an... | D) tissues |
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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) cathode |
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winds from agn and quasars will form large amounts of dust, as the cool gas in these winds passes through the ( pressure, temperature ) region where dust is formed in agb stars. conditions in the gas are benign to dust at these radii. as a result quasar winds may be a major source of dust at high redshifts, ob... | B) air |
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in order to obtain the keys in this system, a key must be inserted and turned ( like the key at the bottom of the system of the picture ). once the key is turned, the operator may retrieve the remaining keys that will be used to open other doors. once all keys are returned, then the operator will be allowed to... | B) series circuit |
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##trophs including all animals, all fungi, all completely parasitic plants, and non - photosynthetic bacteria take in organic molecules produced by photoautotrophs and respire them or use them in the construction of cells and tissues. respiration is the oxidation of carbon compounds by breaking them down into ... | B) energy |
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you noticed any weight loss, change in sleep quality, fevers, lumps and bumps? etc. ), followed by questions on the body ' s main organ systems ( heart, lungs, digestive tract, urinary tract, etc. ). social history ( sh ) : birthplace, residences, marital history, social and economic status, habits ( including... | B) brain |
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. most cells are very small, with diameters ranging from 1 to 100 micrometers and are therefore only visible under a light or electron microscope. there are generally two types of cells : eukaryotic cells, which contain a nucleus, and prokaryotic cells, which do not. prokaryotes are single - celled organisms s... | C) the neocortex |
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the large scale pattern in the arrival directions of extragalactic cosmic rays that reach the earth is different from that of the flux arriving to the halo of the galaxy as a result of the propagation through the galactic magnetic field. two different effects are relevant in this process : deflections of traje... | B) coriolis force |
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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... | C) positive ion |
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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... | C) keratin |
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##ulating the liquid below from the cold air above. water has the capacity to absorb energy, giving it a higher specific heat capacity than other solvents such as ethanol. thus, a large amount of energy is needed to break the hydrogen bonds between water molecules to convert liquid water into water vapor. as a... | B) dense |
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much sunlight the plant receives each day. this can result in adaptive changes in a process known as photomorphogenesis. phytochromes are the photoreceptors in a plant that are sensitive to light. = = plant anatomy and morphology = = plant anatomy is the study of the structure of plant cells and tissues, where... | A) pharynx |
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##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) the spleen |
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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... | B) sarcopenia |
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##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 ... | D) gamma |
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high quality thread. the power loom was invented by edmund cartwright in 1787. in the mid - 1750s, the steam engine was applied to the water power - constrained iron, copper and lead industries for powering blast bellows. these industries were located near the mines, some of which were using steam engines for ... | C) sulfur dioxide |
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, behind which are structures termed reentrant triangles. radar waves penetrating the skin get trapped in these structures, reflecting off the internal faces and losing energy. this method was first used on the blackbird series : a - 12, yf - 12a, lockheed sr - 71 blackbird. the most efficient way to reflect r... | A) capillaries |
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the most abundant molecule in every organism. water is important to life because it is an effective solvent, capable of dissolving solutes such as sodium and chloride ions or other small molecules to form an aqueous solution. once dissolved in water, these solutes are more likely to come in contact with one an... | A) solubility |
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. respiration is one of the key ways a cell releases chemical energy to fuel cellular activity. the overall reaction occurs in a series of biochemical steps, some of which are redox reactions. although cellular respiration is technically a combustion reaction, it clearly does not resemble one when it occurs in... | C) anaerobic respiration |
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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) omnivores |
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= = 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... | D) isomers |
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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 ), ... | A) nonrenewable fossil fuels |
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cell. in juxtacrine signaling, there is direct contact between the signaling and responding cells. finally, hormones are ligands that travel through the circulatory systems of animals or vascular systems of plants to reach their target cells. once a ligand binds with a receptor, it can influence the behavior o... | B) hypothalamus |
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chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. it is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions : their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they under... | D) forensic |
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charges in the nuclei and the negative charges oscillating about them. more than simple attraction and repulsion, the energies and distributions characterize the availability of an electron to bond to another atom. the chemical bond can be a covalent bond, an ionic bond, a hydrogen bond or just because of van ... | D) net neutral charge |
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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) activation energy |
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the elimination of metabolic wastes. these enzyme - catalyzed reactions allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments. metabolic reactions may be categorized as catabolic — the breaking down of compounds ( for example, the breaking down of glucose to pyruva... | D) chemical reactions |
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. the phase of matter is defined by the phase transition, which is when energy put into or taken out of the system goes into rearranging the structure of the system, instead of changing the bulk conditions. sometimes the distinction between phases can be continuous instead of having a discrete boundary ; in th... | D) solid |
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superdielectric behavior was observed in pastes made of high surface area alumina filled to the level of incipient wetness with water containing dissolved sodium chloride ( table salt ). in some cases the dielectric constants were greater than 10 ^ 10.
is the electrostatic force of attraction between them. for... | D) sodium chloride |
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= = = = = = environmental remediation = = = environmental remediation is the process through which contaminants or pollutants in soil, water and other media are removed to improve environmental quality. the main focus is the reduction of hazardous substances within the environment. some of the areas involved i... | D) sunlight |
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modifying the nervous system. nuclear chemistry is the study of how subatomic particles come together and make nuclei. modern transmutation is a large component of nuclear chemistry, and the table of nuclides is an important result and tool for this field. in addition to medical applications, nuclear chemistry... | C) molecular mass |
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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... | C) white blood cell |
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torsion oscillations of the neutron star crust are landau damped by the alfven continuum in the bulk. for strong magnetic fields ( in magnetars ), undamped alfven eigenmodes appear.
ultramagnetized neutron stars or magnetars are magnetically powered neutron stars. their strong magnetic fields dominate the phys... | B) magnetic field |
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activation energy necessary for a chemical reaction to occur can be in the form of heat, light, electricity or mechanical force in the form of ultrasound. a related concept free energy, which also incorporates entropy considerations, is a very useful means for predicting the feasibility of a reaction and deter... | A) electrons |
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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 )... | B) electron |
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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) vacuoles |
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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... | C) reproductive |
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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) the ocean |
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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... | D) amino acids |
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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) villi |
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be the more significant to modern soil theory than fallou ' s. previously, soil had been considered a product of chemical transformations of rocks, a dead substrate from which plants derive nutritious elements. soil and bedrock were in fact equated. dokuchaev considers the soil as a natural body having its own... | A) color |
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the attenuation length and refractive index of liquid xenon for intrinsic scintillation light ( 178nm ) have been measured in a single experiment. the value obtained for attenuation length is 364 + - 18 mm. the refractive index is found to be 1. 69 + - 0. 02. both values were measured at a temperature of 170 +... | B) mechanical |
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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... | B) antarctica |
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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) animals |
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cobalt nanowires with a diameter in the range between 50 to 100nm can be prepared as single - crystal wires with the easy axis ( the c - axis ) perpendicular to the wire axis. the competition between the crystal anisotropy and demagnetization energy frustrates the magnetization direction. a periodic modulation... | A) magnetism |
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kingdom ; phylum ( or division ) ; class ; order ; family ; genus ( plural genera ) ; species. the scientific name of a plant represents its genus and its species within the genus, resulting in a single worldwide name for each organism. for example, the tiger lily is lilium columbianum. lilium is the genus, an... | D) biological community |
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winds from agn and quasars will form large amounts of dust, as the cool gas in these winds passes through the ( pressure, temperature ) region where dust is formed in agb stars. conditions in the gas are benign to dust at these radii. as a result quasar winds may be a major source of dust at high redshifts, ob... | C) climate |
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fertile and resistant, towards biotic and abiotic stress, plants and ensures application of environmentally friendly fertilizers and the use of biopesticides, it is mainly focused on the development of agriculture. on the other hand, some of the uses of green biotechnology involve microorganisms to clean and r... | A) bioremediation |
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a kaluza - klein model, with a matter source associated with hawking radiation from an evaporating black hole, is used to obtain a simple form for the radion effective potential. the environmental effect generally causes a matter - induced shift of the radion vacuum, resulting in the formation of a radion clou... | A) mechanical wave |
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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) reactive |
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it is also possible to define analogs in two - dimensional systems, which has received attention for its relevance to systems in biology. = = = bonding = = = atoms sticking together in molecules or crystals are said to be bonded with one another. a chemical bond may be visualized as the multipole balance betwe... | C) resonance |
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. most cells are very small, with diameters ranging from 1 to 100 micrometers and are therefore only visible under a light or electron microscope. there are generally two types of cells : eukaryotic cells, which contain a nucleus, and prokaryotic cells, which do not. prokaryotes are single - celled organisms s... | C) chloroplasts |
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= = = = = = environmental remediation = = = environmental remediation is the process through which contaminants or pollutants in soil, water and other media are removed to improve environmental quality. the main focus is the reduction of hazardous substances within the environment. some of the areas involved i... | C) skin |
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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... | A) oxygen |
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snake called jormungandr. the norse creation account preserved in gylfaginning ( viii ) states that during the creation of the earth, an impassable sea was placed around it : and jafnharr said : " of the blood, which ran and welled forth freely out of his wounds, they made the sea, when they had formed and mad... | D) trenches |
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28 size spectra of extensive air showers from 7 different experiments are analysed consistently. they are fitted by adjusting either 4 or 5 parameters : knee position, power law exponents above and below the knee, overall intensity and, in addition, a parameter describing the smoothness of the bend. the residu... | A) hypothalamus |
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into seven out of approximately 20 human test subjects as part of a long - term experiment. cartilage : lab - grown cartilage, cultured in vitro on a scaffold, was successfully used as an autologous transplant to repair patients ' knees. scaffold - free cartilage : cartilage generated without the use of exogen... | B) osteoarthritis |
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outer satellites of the planets have distant, eccentric orbits that can be highly inclined or even retrograde relative to the equatorial planes of their planets. these irregular orbits cannot have formed by circumplanetary accretion and are likely products of early capture from heliocentric orbit. the irregula... | A) the sun |
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high speed photometry of kuv 01584 - 0939 ( alias cet3 ) shows that is has a period of 620. 26 s. combined with its hydrogen - deficient spectrum, this implies that it is an am cvn star. the optical modulation is probably a superhump, in which case the orbital period will be slightly shorter than what we have ... | B) infancy |
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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) diploid sporophyte |
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armed with an astrolabe and kepler ' s laws one can arrive at accurate estimates of the orbits of planets.
three major planets, venus, earth, and mercury formed out of the solar nebula. a fourth planetesimal, theia, also formed near earth where it collided in a giant impact, rebounding as the planet mars. duri... | C) gravity |
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enough to rise to the surface — giving birth to volcanoes. = = atmospheric science = = atmospheric science initially developed in the late - 19th century as a means to forecast the weather through meteorology, the study of weather. atmospheric chemistry was developed in the 20th century to measure air pollutio... | A) sea level |
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