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What regulates the passage of blood into capillary beds?
Types of neurons include sensory neurons, motor neurons, and?
What method uses a retailer's coding method to catalog biological specimens in museums?
What kind of rays can travel thousands of meters through air and can penetrate and damage cells deep inside the body?
What are proteins encoded by?
About one-fourth of the blood pumped with each heartbeat enters arteries serving what organs of digestion?
What substances, which serve as catalysts, are involved in most of the chemical reactions that take place in organisms?
Soil forms where land areas are what?
What is the large muscle that extends across the bottom of the chest below the lungs called?
What is the method of evolution by which advantageous heritable traits become more common over generations?
What is an upward force that fluids exert on any object that is placed in them?
What in saliva protects the lining of the mouth from abrasion and lubricates food for easier swallowing?
What helps control the muscles and maintain balance?
The two main fundamental particles that make up neutrons are quarks and what else?
Chromatin condenses into chromosomes during prophase, the first and longest phase of what process?
What kind of reactions are involved in processes ranging from the contraction of muscles to the digestion of food?
What is the smallest unit of a chemical element called?
Shielding should be used when receiving x-rays to limit exposure to what potentially harmful form of energy?
What are the most numerous and diverse biochemical compounds?
In recent years, it has been hypothesized that molecules in the environment also act as?
What are the male reproductive cells called?
How many pairs of chromosomes do human have ?
What describes a close and long-term interaction between different species?
Narrowing of the arterioles causes an increase of what upstream in the arteries?
The rate of evolution is influenced by the rate of changes to what?
Most members of the animal kingdom have differentiated tissues of four main classes—nervous, muscular, connective, and this?
Vertebrates are all chordates that have a what?
What is the term for a state of matter that yields to sideways or shearing forces?
The other ammonium ions are changed into nitrogen gas by what?
The coordinated activities of the legume and the rhizobium bacteria depend on what between the partners?
What type of rocks form when sediments are compacted and cemented together?
What is the reaction called when an acid and a base react?
What is the measure of water potential?
Within organs, arteries branch into what small vessels that convey blood to the capillaries?
What do you call the movement of a substance from an area of a higher amount toward an area of lower amount?
Mollusks such as squid and octopi, which must hunt to survive, possess what complex organs containing millions of neurons?
What is a thin layer of gas that surrounds earth called?
What connects the fetus to the placenta?
Name the term used to described prokaryotes that require oxygen.
What might a scientist do to confirm the work of another?
What does fiber help keep at normal levels in the body?
What causes genetic disorders?
There are a series of rules for naming branched alkanes (and, ultimately, for all organic compounds). these rules make up the system of nomenclature for naming what?
The binding of what helps eliminate antigens by phagocytosis and complement-mediated lysis
What kind of energy is released when the nucleus of an atom is split?
Each cell and every living thing requires what?
What do scientists use to study the deep without going to the seafloor?
Burning gas to run our cars is an example of how human activity is contributing to what global event?
Solar cells convert the energy in sunlight to what type of energy?
What type of seismic waves do the most damage?
What type of orbitals do electrons in successive atoms on the periodic table tend to fill first?
In the water molecule, two of the electron pairs are lone pairs rather than what?
What kind of reproduction is vegetative reproduction?
One of the simplest machines is the lever, which is a rigid bar pivoted at a fixed place called what?
What structure is a larger assembly of several polypeptide chains that are now referred to as subunits of the protein?
What is the body cavity that reptiles have that is involved in reproduction?
Animals that have been modified to express recombinant dna are called what?
There are how many visual clues to indicate a chemical reaction?
Behaviors that occur naturally and are not learned are called what?
What kind of energy positions do electrons occupy during ground state?
How many neutrons do 99% of carbon atoms have?
If a quantity of a reactant remains unconsumed after complete reaction has occurred, it is?
What serious sti can damage the heart, brain and other organs or even cause death, if untreated?
What glands in the breast secrete milk?
The conversion of food that is consumed to nutrients involves what two major processes:
What is the change of state from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state?
Which organ has a thick mucus lining that protects the underlying tissue from the action of the digestive juices?
Scientists use the principles of what to make predictions, which they then test?
What are misfolded versions of normal brain proteins?
What happens to the volume of a gas as the kelvin temperature increases?
Particulates cause lung diseases. they can also increase the risk of heart disease and the number of what?
What forms the changing shapes of sand dunes?
What is an odorless white solid that is harmless unless consumed in large quantities?
Catabolic reactions involve breaking what?
What type of resource is limited in supply and cannot be replaced except over millions of years?
Photosynthesis produces oxygen as a byproduct, and respiration produces what as a byproduct?
What is the field of biology that focuses on the study of inheritance in humans?
Muscle contraction requires repeated cycles of binding and what?
Objects in motion that return to the same position after a fixed period of time are said to be in what?
Physical and chemical properties of geometric isomers are generally what?
What do you call a substance that cannot be broken down to other substances by chemical reactions.?
What is the permanent prevention of gamete production or release called?
Which stage of life is typically easier for learning multiple languages?
"cardio" has become slang for what type of exercise that raises your heart rate for an extended amount of time?
A venule is an extremely small vein, generally 8–100 micrometers in diameter. postcapillary venules join multiple capillaries exiting from a capillary bed. multiple venules join to form what?
Which part of the brain secretes hormones that tell the pituitary gland either to secrete or to stop secreting its hormones?
What is the name of the smallest planet in our solar system, which is also nearest to the sun?
Food chains and what describe the transfer of energy within an ecosystem, from one organism to another?
Because force and electric field are what, they have direction as well as their value?
Mutations in regulatory genes that normally control the cell cycle cause what?
Shortening of muscle fibers is called what?`
What body joint incurs the most common overuse injury among runners and other athletes?
In 1802, charles and gay-lussac both proposed that for a fixed amount of gas at a constant pressure, what is directly proportional to its absolute temperature?
Why do waves travel faster through solids?
Sounds, chemicals, and visual cues are examples of what between animals?
Where do sperm go after leaving the testicles and before entering the vas deferens?
What organ packages nutrients absorbed by the digestive system; produces plasma proteins, clotting factors, and bile; and disposes of worn-out cell components and waste products?
What is the substance called whenatoms of different elements join together?
What are fibers that depend on aerobic respiration called?
Capillaries are narrow-diameter tubes that can fit red blood cells through in single file and are the sites for the exchange of what?