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What is the name for biochemical compounds that consist of one or more chains of small molecules called amino acids?
[ "lipids", "proteins", "protons", "hormones" ]
proteins
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b9de05ad-20fe-4b19-9a59-b335171c5376
What are the ionic compounds that produce negative hydroxide ions when dissolved in water?
[ "isotopes", "bases", "acids", "enzymes" ]
bases
sciq
ecdd6d51-3fe5-4d8b-b58e-3331a85ef38c
The atomic number of tungsten is 74. therefore, in a neutral atom of tungsten, there are 74 electrons. the atomic number of argon is 18. therefore, in a neutral atom of argon, there are how many electrons?
[ "36", "74", "9", "18" ]
18
sciq
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What is the apparatus used for carrying out an electrolysis reaction?
[ "Golgi apparatus", "catalyst", "an electrolytic cell", "an aqueous cell" ]
an electrolytic cell
sciq
add78a40-44bc-47e3-8ca5-fad760ff4e53
What two ways may light be transmitted?
[ "reflected or refracted", "absorption and refraction", "magnified or scattered", "refracted or scattered" ]
refracted or scattered
sciq
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Triggered by changes in the environment, migration and hibernation occur as cycles on what temporal basis?
[ "annual", "monthly", "seasonally", "bi-annually" ]
annual
sciq
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What pair of tubes that extends toward the ovaries features a fringelike structure that sweeps eggs inside?
[ "vas deferens", "ovarian tubes", "fallopian tubes", "golgi apparatus" ]
fallopian tubes
sciq
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In most animals, what sense is related to balance or equilibrium?
[ "tasting", "vision", "feeling", "hearing" ]
hearing
sciq
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Terminal pods are located at the end of what?
[ "fruits", "leaves", "stems", "spines" ]
stems
sciq
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What forms when the spores from two parents fuse during sexual reproduction?
[ "monospore", "xerophyte", "zygospore", "spirogyra" ]
zygospore
sciq
33fb490d-a17f-437a-b252-3d1295b13a5a
What is the name of the galaxy we live in?
[ "milky way", "Andromeda", "Centaurus A", "Bode's Galaxy" ]
milky way
sciq
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What are the most common seedless vascular plants?
[ "trees", "ferns", "grasses", "weeds" ]
ferns
sciq
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In a monogamous pairing, a male individual is generally paired with what other type of individual in a sexual relationship?
[ "female", "male", "worker", "drone" ]
female
sciq
590ffee9-920d-4fbc-af66-aa253e0ae28c
What is a mass spectrometer used to measure?
[ "relative atomic masses", "optical atomic masses", "subatomic masses", "partial atomic masses" ]
relative atomic masses
sciq
3e6fb464-46a7-4d92-b2f0-3a28be28028f
What combines sets of genes from two different parents leading to genetically diverse offspring?
[ "sexual reproduction", "subject reproduction", "sexual destruction", "cellular reproduction" ]
sexual reproduction
sciq
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Global warming will raise ocean levels due to melt water from glaciers and the greater volume of what?
[ "warmer water", "rainforests", "rain", "greenhouse gases" ]
warmer water
sciq
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What are groups of young stars loosely held together by gravity called?
[ "constellations", "closed clusters", "open clusters", "galaxies" ]
open clusters
sciq
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What does a pollinator pick up from its body and carry directly to another plant of the same species?
[ "seed", "pathogen", "spore", "pollen" ]
pollen
sciq
378452d2-afa0-4421-8918-bcbc61bf7791
What is formed when an oxygen atom picks up a pair of hydrogen ions from a solution?
[ "water", "turpentine", "liquid", "ammonia" ]
water
sciq
f8a81928-a208-44b2-95d4-be3065f10341
What does the driving of turbines by the heating of water to steam accomplish?
[ "depletion of electricity", "diffusion of electricity", "absorption of electricity", "generation of electricity" ]
generation of electricity
sciq
033d0d41-ac32-41af-8247-1cac8e5a1194
What is a device that changes kinetic energy to electrical energy through electromagnetic induction?
[ "a windmill", "an electric generator", "a diesel engine", "a battery" ]
an electric generator
sciq
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How many naturally occurring elements are known on earth?
[ "60", "85", "87", "90" ]
90
sciq
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What are the two types of vesicle transport called?
[ "epithelium and exocytosis", "endocytosis and exocytosis", "dielectric and exocytosis", "eptocytosis and exocytosis" ]
endocytosis and exocytosis
sciq
43e8ac81-514c-44d1-86e4-3efadca67b73
What do you call a species that has died out in the past?
[ "inhabit", "endangered", "remnant", "extinct" ]
extinct
sciq
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Where does the embryo develop in a plant?
[ "inside the stem after fertilization", "inside the female plant after fertilization", "inside the male plant after fertilization", "outside the female plant after fertilization" ]
inside the female plant after fertilization
sciq
0478930c-eef2-454b-9fc3-74868762d7c4
What is the method of setting or correcting a measuring device by matching it to known measurement standards called?
[ "precision", "parallax", "calibration", "distortion" ]
calibration
sciq
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What property of warm air causes it to rise above cold air?
[ "higher temperature", "greater pressure", "lower density", "greater density" ]
lower density
sciq
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Which branch of biology studies animal behavior?
[ "anthropology", "embryology", "microbiology", "ethology" ]
ethology
sciq
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What unit of measure is equal to the amount of work a horse can do in 1 minute?
[ "watt", "joule", "horsepower", "torque" ]
horsepower
sciq
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What organism is characterized by an incomplete digestive system and a single, tentacled opening?
[ "cnidarians", "sponges", "prokaryotes", "annelids" ]
cnidarians
sciq
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What term is not the same as energy, but means the energy per unit charge?
[ "mass", "speed", "frequency", "voltage" ]
voltage
sciq
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What specific part of the african violet is used to propagate other plants?
[ "roots", "leaves", "petals", "spores" ]
leaves
sciq
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What are fibers that depend on aerobic respiration called?
[ "hydrogen fibers", "evaporative fibers", "fragile fibers", "oxidative fibers" ]
oxidative fibers
sciq
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Which form of electromagnetic waves have more energy: low frequency wave or high frequency waves?
[ "low frequency waves", "high frequency waves", "neither", "the same" ]
high frequency waves
sciq
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Something that has all of the characteristics of life is considered to be what?
[ "alive", "ecosystem", "molecule", "organism" ]
alive
sciq
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What do the letters in our blood types represent?
[ "iron levels", "genomes", "proteins", "alleles" ]
alleles
sciq
dde7991e-5ed6-4a60-a6c9-9be18501228f
The two stages of photosynthesis are the light reactions and what?
[ "respiratory cycle", "reproductive cycle", "digestive cycle", "calvin cycle" ]
calvin cycle
sciq
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What do living things need to survive?
[ "nutrients", "heat", "oxygen", "molecules" ]
nutrients
sciq
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The denser regions of the electron cloud are called what?
[ "isotopes", "orbitals", "lattices", "cores" ]
orbitals
sciq
00c51476-4b86-4c49-8485-bab93ec9f20a
In studying energy, what term do scientists use to refer to the matter and its environment involved in energy transfers?
[ "world", "molecule", "ecosystem", "system" ]
system
sciq
0ca64bfd-80b5-4f0b-9224-edc85c7348af
To measure what changes that occur in chemical reactions, chemists usually use a related thermodynamic quantity, calledenthalpy?
[ "evaporation", "energy", "entropy", "ion exchange" ]
energy
sciq
50df15af-43d2-4f44-9c16-f3dda65f7670
A system in what state cannot spontaneously change, and therefore can do no work?
[ "balance", "stability", "equality", "equilibrium" ]
equilibrium
sciq
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What is a species that plays an especially important role in it's community called?
[ "complement", "keystone", "Invasive", "Leader" ]
keystone
sciq
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What term that shows how fast a population is growing includes new members added to the population over a given period, as well as old members removed from the population?
[ "emigration", "growth rate", "birth rate", "population density" ]
growth rate
sciq
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The rings of what planet can be easily seen from earth?
[ "Neptune", "jupiter", "Venus", "saturn" ]
saturn
sciq
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What planet is a blue green color?
[ "Mercury", "uranus", "Mars", "sirius" ]
uranus
sciq
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The simplest class of organic compounds is the what?
[ "hydrocarbons", "gas", "particles", "Phenols" ]
hydrocarbons
sciq
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Some meteorites are made of iron and nickel and are thought to be very similar to what part of the earth?
[ "crust", "shelf", "mantel", "core" ]
core
sciq
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Which pathway carries somatosensory information from the face, head, mouth, and nasal cavity?
[ "posterior pathway", "trigeminal pathway", "dual pathway", "cranial pathway" ]
trigeminal pathway
sciq
fa43db67-df8b-42ba-8244-2674b84e1750
The amount of kinetic energy in a moving object depends directly on its mass and what else?
[ "velocity", "volume", "density", "direction" ]
velocity
sciq
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Cycling, shoveling snow and cross-country skiing are examples of what kind of heart-strengthening activity?
[ "exercise", "anaerobic", "metabolism", "aerobic" ]
aerobic
sciq
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What take the shape of their container, and are relatively easy to compress?
[ "gases", "semi-fluids", "fluids", "molecules" ]
gases
sciq
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What is moving air called?
[ "steam", "wind", "clouds", "humidity" ]
wind
sciq
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What property makes bone marrow cells ideal for gene therapy?
[ "lifelong reproduction", "irreversible reproduction", "Matching", "behavior reproduction" ]
lifelong reproduction
sciq
f75674a2-ac67-400b-8832-0d369ccd2e63
What is the name of the two metalloids in the carbon group called?
[ "silicon and germanium", "silicon and gold", "silver and gold", "titantium and copper" ]
silicon and germanium
sciq
fe10c40d-a4de-4ce0-a57c-87657124b94d
What is the name of the zone where water is deeper than 200 meters called?
[ "transition zone", "aphotic zone", "eccentric zone", "euphotic zone" ]
aphotic zone
sciq
740d91a2-3aa2-4299-bf97-366fcb98d032
Diagnosing and treating cancer is a beneficial use of what potentially dangerous energy?
[ "solar", "radiation", "thermal", "mechanical" ]
radiation
sciq
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Many adults and some children suffer from a deficiency of lactase. these individuals are said to be lactose intolerant because they cannot digest the lactose found in what?
[ "meat", "peanuts", "milk", "fruit" ]
milk
sciq
702ec7d2-db77-4f01-8774-cc1d1dcab69b
Three-prong plugs, circuit breakers, and gfci outlets are safety features that recognize the danger of what?
[ "magnetism", "heat", "electricity", "gravity" ]
electricity
sciq
27c87f76-30e3-4e04-bc97-1cd91c5b455b
Catabolic reactions break down large organic molecules into smaller molecules, releasing the energy contained in what?
[ "molecular bonds", "liquid bonds", "crystals bonds", "chemical bonds" ]
chemical bonds
sciq
28673d9b-15db-45ca-b8db-214889034a58
In qualitative analysis, reagents are added to an unknown chemical mixture in order to induce what?
[ "sunlight", "precipitation", "motion", "erosion" ]
precipitation
sciq
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While climate change in earth history was due to natural processes, what is primarily to blame for recent global warming?
[ "human actions", "wars", "factories", "volcanos" ]
human actions
sciq
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What is the simplest life cycle?
[ "metamorphic cycle", "haploid life cycle", "binary life cycle", "diploid life cycle" ]
haploid life cycle
sciq
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What keeps the moon orbiting earth?
[ "gravity", "the Sun", "Coriolis effect", "axial tilt" ]
gravity
sciq
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What are formed by the attraction between oppositely charged ions?
[ "soluble bonds", "inept bonds", "ionic bonds", "magnetic bonds" ]
ionic bonds
sciq
c6022fd1-99c4-4782-a653-91436e944198
What produces hormones that directly regulate body processes?
[ "pancreas", "lymph glands", "hippocampus", "hypothalamus" ]
hypothalamus
sciq
64568131-1b30-4c50-b1eb-0ec79b72a165
Comparing anatomy, and characterizing the similarities and differences, provides evidence of what process?
[ "evolution", "devolution", "emergence", "regression" ]
evolution
sciq
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What is the second most abundant element in the earth's crust?
[ "helium", "silicon", "carbon", "nitrogen" ]
silicon
sciq
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Which kind of genetics approach involves mutating or deleting genes provides researchers with clues about gene function?
[ "impossible genetics", "inverse genetics", "reverse genetics", "possible genetics" ]
reverse genetics
sciq
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More than half of all known organisms are what?
[ "mammals", "insects", "enzymes", "spiders" ]
insects
sciq
b2af5963-0ba6-4df3-a3f2-6fc3bea38b9d
For what purpose does liver use the excess carbohydrate?
[ "dilute carbohydrates", "convert starches", "to synthesize glycogen", "process sugar" ]
to synthesize glycogen
sciq
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What are alkenes organic compounds that contain one or more double or triple bonds between carbon atoms described as?
[ "strong", "unsaturated", "insulated", "saturated" ]
unsaturated
sciq
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Electrons in covalent compounds are shared between the two atoms, unlike the case in what type of bonds?
[ "soluble bonds", "weak bonds", "horizontal bonds", "ionic bonds" ]
ionic bonds
sciq
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What is the resistance of a liquid to flow called?
[ "turbulence", "permeability", "elasticity", "viscosity" ]
viscosity
sciq
c9582ea5-ad9f-4774-afb1-70072a524aeb
The mass of atoms is based on the number of protons and neutrons in what?
[ "nucleus", "components", "electrons", "molecules" ]
nucleus
sciq
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Where do polychaete worms live?
[ "in tide pools", "attached to marine life", "in coral reefs", "the ocean floor" ]
the ocean floor
sciq
9732de65-8fa5-4afc-a8ee-76e0a04564e6
What is the study of how and why plants and animals live where they do?
[ "geomorphology", "lithography", "biogeography", "heredity" ]
biogeography
sciq
a3ad2683-45b3-4cf6-a663-88d85d5a91e9
What are the two major types of seed plants called?
[ "gymnosperms and angiosperms", "flowers and fruits", "deciduous and evergreen", "perennials and annuals" ]
gymnosperms and angiosperms
sciq
0d41b3e0-d09e-4d18-9da9-8f668cfeb1b6
What do we call the energy-rich product of photosynthesis?
[ "sugar", "chloride", "glucose", "insulin" ]
glucose
sciq
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How is oxygen transferred into the bloodstream?
[ "mean diffusion", "hard diffusion", "simple diffusion", "brain diffusion" ]
simple diffusion
sciq
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Ringworm and athlete's foot are human diseases caused by what simple organisms?
[ "bacteria", "viruses", "insects", "fungi" ]
fungi
sciq
772fae14-dcea-48dd-b700-cbeec91eb0c4
What is the measure of the change in the velocity of a moving object called?
[ "acceleration", "compression", "pressurization", "transmission" ]
acceleration
sciq
323d25a9-9bcd-4e6f-afb4-8e1655d54e9a
What is the usual treatment for acute bronchitis?
[ "antibiotics", "physical therapy", "pesticides", "surgery" ]
antibiotics
sciq
b8e4290e-9f5e-4a6b-acac-8084f3b8e874
What are generally divided into prosimian and non-prosimian?
[ "rodents", "primates", "carnivores", "insects" ]
primates
sciq
ca08ccce-0f4d-42c1-aa8c-d733ab00d3bd
The creation and destruction of oceanic crust is the reason what moves?
[ "continents", "planets", "oceans", "animals" ]
continents
sciq
74b37727-b834-4d8d-9ef3-a27f986e4f78
What is the concept by which two species within the same area to coexist by adapting by developing different specializations?
[ "character concept", "character displacement", "feature displacement", "character development" ]
character displacement
sciq
8d75ec79-fdd0-4a17-abe9-0786f3e12d63
A turbine that spins a generator will produce?
[ "solar energy", "magnetic fields", "electricity", "light" ]
electricity
sciq
1eaef5ac-53c4-4efe-ae17-6063c6d26a84
Meiosis in the sporophyte produces haploid cells called what?
[ "ions", "fibers", "spores", "seeds" ]
spores
sciq
89f0e54d-5209-402f-b8f4-405c240be971
In this type of reaction, an element replaces another element in a compound, and the element is in any state of matter but is not an ion?
[ "double-replacement reaction", "polar reaction", "single-replacement reaction", "replication reaction" ]
single-replacement reaction
sciq
eb0b06b9-9c2a-42a8-a618-4d993cb27ad4
What are the two distinct types of cells found in the animal kingdom?
[ "chromosomes and eukaryotes", "DNA and Eukaryotes", "prokaryotes and eukaryotes", "bacteria and eukaryotes" ]
prokaryotes and eukaryotes
sciq
e2ef1dce-c419-4e2c-80a6-8a33e4ad7993
What category of elements are chacterized by their ability to reflect light, called luster, their high electrical and thermal conductivity, their high heat capacity, and their malleability and ductility?
[ "nonmetals", "halogens", "noble gases", "metals" ]
metals
sciq
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Angiosperms are also known as what?
[ "dead plants", "uncommon plants", "dry plants", "flowering plants" ]
flowering plants
sciq
06ff1277-bdcf-4014-91f6-54e5fd0f572b
An estimated 100 trillion of these live in the gut of an average person?
[ "bacteria", "algae", "viruses", "pathogens" ]
bacteria
sciq
b7db33d8-4e30-4ea8-8ab6-4c644159dd52
The ability to regulate what, which is possessed by mammals, was an advantage as earth’s climate went through sudden and dramatic changes?
[ "reflex behaviors", "hair growth", "body temperature", "mutations" ]
body temperature
sciq
c84b22ac-2ff7-427c-b2ee-aaa2b13036cd
What is the term for very large arrays of tandemly repeating, non-coding dna?
[ "satellite dna", "models dna", "addition dna", "recombinant dna" ]
satellite dna
sciq
fdd51b14-2bc6-40a4-a48b-8f606d65a06b
What kind of map can show the features of the bottom of a body of water?
[ "country", "basic", "topographic", "bathymetric" ]
bathymetric
sciq
d8cff549-371c-498e-9781-98f4a2ebb8c3
What evolved, adapted response to resource availability is the long-range seasonal movement of animals?
[ "migration", "regulating", "Stagnation", "changing" ]
migration
sciq
065f8f18-7179-48f7-9e2f-ecb4aa67c233
When animals get rid of their gaseous waste, what is exhaled through their mouth and nose?
[ "carbon dioxide", "carbon monoxide", "hydrogen", "oxygen" ]
carbon dioxide
sciq
961e3d49-3869-4616-98a9-f3c92aa41585
What is another name for composite volcanos?
[ "stratovolcanoes", "fjords", "seismic giants", "fault lines" ]
stratovolcanoes
sciq
952435e5-d2d7-46a6-9313-e60a2128c503
Fossil records support the idea that periods of little change may be interrupted by bursts of rapid change, an evolutionary model contrasted by what?
[ "gradualism", "minimalism", "elitism", "darwinian" ]
gradualism
sciq