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What are single-celled or colonial organisms that do not have membranebound nuclei?
What is the stage between a zygote and polyp?
Red-green color blindness is an example of a sex-linked condition caused by what?
Like all tetrapods except birds and mammals, frogs possess a heart with what structure?
E. coli uses how many enzymes to take up and metabolize lactose?
The innermost layer of the sun is known as what?
The conservation of momentum principle can be applied to systems as different as a comet striking earth and a gas containing huge numbers of atoms and these?
Transferring what from sodium to chlorine decreases the radius of sodium by about 50%?
Dna is normally found within what region of a cell?
What chemical substances are secreted by animals that communicate by odor or taste?
"crossing over" occurs during what phase of mitosis?
What is the process by which plants gain energy and produce sugar?
What are the four stages of food processing?
Phosphorus exists as several allotropes, the most common being red, black, and what?
Asci are used by mycelia for what kind of reproduction?
What is a diagram that shows a single way that energy flows throughout an ecosystem?
Alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma particles are major types of what?
Metabolism produces waste energy in the form of heat, which helps what type of animal conserve and maintain heat at a relatively constant body temperature?
What is a dip slip fault where the dip of the fault plane is vertical?
What kind of reactions absorb energy from their surroundings as they occur?
What is the process of generating electric current with a magnetic field?
Eggs are produced in what organs and, upon fertilization, develop in what other organ?
High per capita use of what means the ecological footprint of the united states is large?
Biodiversity hot spots are prime candidates for protection because they are prone to what species fate?
What is the cutting and burning trees to clear land for farming called?
Ionic compounds contain cations and anions rather than what?
What is a stellar remnant that is very dense?
In what stage of photosynthesis does the calvin cycle occur?
How many atoms of oxygen does silicon dioxide contain?
What is the term for longer chains of monosaccharides ?
What type of cells are multiple small spaces located in the right and left sides of the ethmoid bone?
Helium-3 is produced by beta decay of a certain what?
Sudden changes in geologic and climatic conditions can spur what process?
The penis, testes and epididymes are structures in what male anatomical system?
An element that is generally a poor conductor of heat and electricity is known as a ______
In science, anything that has mass and volume is considered what?
What type of cell has a singular chromosome, no nucleus, and few other organelles?
Unburned hydrocarbons can more easily be converted to carbon dioxide and water in the presence of a what?
What is the process of removing wastes and excess water from the body?
What kind of diseases can be difficult to treat because they live inside the host's cells, making it hard to destroy them without killing host cells?
In plants, a cell plate is formed during cell cytokinesis by golgi vesicles fusing at the what?
What organ creates bile?
Which gender typically experiences growth spurts first?
What is the name for a molecule with two atoms?
What are electrons at the outermost energy level of an atom are called?
When fuel is burned most of the energy is released as what?
What occurs when a former inhabited area gets disturbed?
What is the term for a disease that is not contagious?
Why do electronegativities decrease from top to bottom?
Making ups about 50 percent of the modern american diet, what food group can be classified according to the number of monomers they contain of simple sugars and/or complex sugars?
Plant-like protists are autotrophs capable of what process?
What is it called when electrons are shared equally?
What explains the spherical shape of ceres, once thought to be the largest asteroid?
Average acceleration is the rate of change of what?
Which organ is the control center of the nervous system?
What kind of beneficial relationships with other organisms are common in the plant kingdom?
What preventive measure can protect even young children against diseases such as viral meningitis?
Rainwater absorbs carbon dioxide (co 2 ) as it falls. the co 2 combines with water to form what?
Glucose, fructose, and other sugars that have six carbons are called what?
What "apparatus" is responsible for sorting, modifying, and shipping off the products that come from the rough endoplasmic reticulum?
Which gas is responsible for global warming?
Being exposed to sunlight will produce what vitamin in the skin?
What is the purpose of your body's first line of defense?
What is the general composition of the continental crust?
Sunlight contains many different wavelengths, which you see when they separate into what?
Innate behaviors occur in all animals. however, they are less common in species with higher levels of what?
Chromosomes further condensed in which stage?
Oxygen is essentially just a waste product of the light reactions of what?
The mean free path for a gaseous molecule will be hundreds of times the what of the molecule?
What type of air do plants take in and use?
What is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox?
Which important decomposers are known to live just about anywhere on earth?
Dinosaurs filled the niches that mammals fill today during which era?
What is produced by the reaction of metal oxide with water?
What is the process of converting atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia called?
The polymerase chain reaction is a way of making copies of what?
Where on earth do bacteria live?
Angiosperms possess reproductive structures that attract animals that perform what role?
What is it called when a gene at one location (locus) alters the phenotypic expression of a gene at another locus?
Wearing what will reduce the amplitude of sound waves entering the ears?
Proteins include 20 common types of what compounds?
Mollusks are probably most closely related to organisms in the phylum annelida , also known as what?
What molecule can be used by the body to synthesize cholesterol ?
What makes up 99 percent of air?
Plants supply, ultimately, most of the food eaten by terrestrial animals, along with what gas?
A common age-related bone disease in which bone density and strength is decreased is know as what?
What bodily substance is formed from cells, and in turn helps make up organs?
What is the term for the hard, round object produced within the mantle of a living shelled mollusk?
The potential of what can be used to measure the ph of a solution?
Each species of legume is associated with a strain of __________
Where is the fruiting body normally produced in relation to the food source?
What are the 3 types of volcanoes?
What is the low level of radiation that occurs naturally in the environment called?
Fungi may form mutualistic relationships with plants, algae, cyanobacteria, and what?
Cancers derived from epithelial cells are referred to as what?
What structure is the site of all of the basic biochemical processes that keep organisms alive?
What is a layer of tissue that lies between the shell and the body?
If something is in the state of matter where it has both a definite shape and volume, then what state of matter is it in?
What process within cells makes sure that every gamete receives a copy of every chromosome?
What state of matter completes the list: solid, liquid, gas?