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What type of compounds make up the cells and tissues of living things?
[ "hormonal", "microbial", "proximal", "biochemical" ]
biochemical
sciq
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Anything that has mass and takes up space is considered what?
[ "matter", "energy", "power", "light" ]
matter
sciq
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What will you see if you look at a star through a prism?
[ "rainbow", "spots", "spectrum", "kaleidoscope" ]
spectrum
sciq
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Where is most digestion completed?
[ "the stomach", "the duodenum", "the cavity", "the esophagus" ]
the duodenum
sciq
d91ba10c-dc22-4b97-9dbe-512fcf782931
Explosive eruptions associated with what can be tens of thousands of times as powerful as an atomic bomb?
[ "volcanoes", "earthquakes", "forest fires", "hurricanes" ]
volcanoes
sciq
aa44398d-0e4d-4a93-b884-f560f8e82f9b
What gland secretes its products directly into the urethra through several small ducts
[ "adrenal", "pituitary", "prostate", "thyroid" ]
prostate
sciq
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The complete combustion of alkanes to carbon dioxide is an extremely __________ reaction.
[ "reactive", "geothermal", "exothermic", "hydrolic" ]
exothermic
sciq
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What is the study of structure, properties, and interactions of matter?
[ "geology", "petrology", "chemistry", "biology" ]
chemistry
sciq
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Because several genes, each with more than one allele, contribute to determining height in humans, height is considered what kind of trait?
[ "polygenic", "epigenetic", "maladaptive", "adaptive" ]
polygenic
sciq
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A basidium is the fruiting body of a mushroomproducing fungus, and it forms four what?
[ "tunnels", "basidiocarps", "schizonts", "fossiliferous" ]
basidiocarps
sciq
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Traditional classification of mammals are based on similarities in what two things?
[ "solution & function", "Density and Structure", "structure & function", "density & function" ]
structure & function
sciq
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The rest of the energy stored in glucose is lost as what?
[ "humidity", "mass", "volume", "heat" ]
heat
sciq
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Water that is lost through the skin through evaporation from the skin surface without overt sweating and from air expelled from the lungs is known as what?
[ "logical water loss", "insensible water loss", "dehydration", "osmotic process" ]
insensible water loss
sciq
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What are the only innate behaviors in humans?
[ "reflex behaviors", "learned behaviors", "insight behaviors", "inherited traits" ]
reflex behaviors
sciq
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What occurs when a parent organism breaks into fragments, or pieces, and each fragment develops into a new organism?
[ "sollution", "absorption", "fragmentation", "erosion" ]
fragmentation
sciq
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What does the triploid cell develop into during fertilization?
[ "zygote", "tubers", "membrane", "endosperm" ]
endosperm
sciq
42b36482-757d-4c6a-8277-230f77c642df
The law of conservation of matter, which says that matter cannot be created or this?
[ "damaged", "stopped", "destroyed", "abandoned" ]
destroyed
sciq
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Which particle of an atom has a positive electric charge?
[ "nucleus", "electron", "nutron", "proton" ]
proton
sciq
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How is a reaction described when the given conditions favor formation of products?
[ "planned", "fluctuations", "instantaneous", "spontaneous" ]
spontaneous
sciq
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What does an electric field surround?
[ "charged ions", "neutral particles", "negative particle", "a charged particle" ]
a charged particle
sciq
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Lack of what mineral causes rickets?
[ "magnesium", "zinc", "potassium", "calcium" ]
calcium
sciq
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What do we call the energy of motion?
[ "binary energy", "kinetic energy", "harmonic energy", "electromagnetic energy" ]
kinetic energy
sciq
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Earthquakes and visible light are examples of what?
[ "winds", "waves", "geological phenomena", "currents" ]
waves
sciq
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There is always a slightly negative pressure within what cavity, helping keep the airways of the lungs open?
[ "anal", "thoracic", "cervical", "spinal" ]
thoracic
sciq
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What property allows cut logs to float on water?
[ "polarity", "density", "heat", "precipitation" ]
density
sciq
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Different interatomic distances produce different lattice what?
[ "energies", "weights", "qualities", "surfaces" ]
energies
sciq
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What organs filter blood and form urine?
[ "the spleen", "the appendix", "the liver", "the kidneys" ]
the kidneys
sciq
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A chain of what structures form as an oceanic plate moves over a hotspot?
[ "volcanoes", "ridges", "earthquakes", "outcrops" ]
volcanoes
sciq
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What is responsible for many properties of covalent compounds, which have relatively low boiling points, cannot conduct electricity, and may not dissolve in water?
[ "covalent bonds", "accretion bonds", "ionic charge", "atomic weight" ]
covalent bonds
sciq
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Tanning salons claim to use a “safe” form of what light, with a longer wavelength than that in sunlight?
[ "infrared", "uv (ultraviolet)", "microwave", "X rays" ]
uv (ultraviolet)
sciq
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Respiratory therapists or respiratory practitioners evaluate and treat patients diseases affecting what part of the body?
[ "brain, stomach, heart", "byproduct , heart , and blood vessels", "heart, lungs, stomach", "lung, heart, and blood vessels" ]
lung, heart, and blood vessels
sciq
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Within each sporangium, hundreds of what kind of spores develop and are dispersed through the air?
[ "diploid", "haploid", "infertile", "polyploid" ]
haploid
sciq
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What delivers power to the chemical factory chloroplasts?
[ "water", "the sun", "chlorophyll", "oxygen" ]
the sun
sciq
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Which type of bryophytes are named for their horn-like sporophytes?
[ "arthropods", "flatworms", "tapeworms", "hornworts" ]
hornworts
sciq
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What do you call a carnivore that eats mainly insects?
[ "predator", "pescatorian", "insectivores", "omnivores" ]
insectivores
sciq
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Oxygen has the second highest electronegativity of any element; consequently, it prefers to share or accept electrons from other elements. only with fluorine does oxygen form compounds in this?
[ "positive oxidation states", "negative Oxidation States", "liquid oxidation states", "chemical oxidation states" ]
positive oxidation states
sciq
b78f95d7-d6d4-45b3-9775-adfa0335e06e
What component of cells is present in plant and bacterial cells but not animal cells?
[ "nucleus", "plasma", "cell wall", "mitochondria" ]
cell wall
sciq
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Energy cannot be created or destroyed - it can only change what?
[ "fluid", "kind", "shape", "form" ]
form
sciq
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Most fungi can reproduce in which 2 ways?
[ "sexually and autonomously", "sexually and binary fusion", "asexually and sexually", "binary fission and fusion" ]
asexually and sexually
sciq
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What is a pair of valence electrons in a bonded atom that does not participate in bonding called?
[ "isolated pair", "lone pair", "hostile pair", "opposite pair" ]
lone pair
sciq
77bfb75b-3146-4154-b939-21f9003ab0ca
When a metal is oxidized and a nonmetal is reduced in a redox reaction, what is the resulting compound called?
[ "soluble compound", "alloy", "magnetic compound", "ionic compound" ]
ionic compound
sciq
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A biofilm is a colony of prokaryotes that is stuck to what?
[ "surface", "skin", "the bottom", "the middle" ]
surface
sciq
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What is the part of the flower that produces pollen?
[ "leaves", "stamen", "stigma", "cones" ]
stamen
sciq
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What neutralizes the acidity of chyme and acts as a buffer?
[ "the small intestine", "the bicarbonate", "bile", "the chloride" ]
the bicarbonate
sciq
bf0689e5-9a87-4249-bb21-897aee9e68e6
What type of stress causes horizontal motions in strike-slip faults?
[ "shear", "blunt", "hot", "cold" ]
shear
sciq
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The structure of the boeing 787 has been described as essentially one giant macromolecule, where everything is fastened through cross-linked chemical bonds reinforced with this?
[ "non-covalent interaction", "nitrogen fiber", "carbon fiber", "metal-metal bonds" ]
carbon fiber
sciq
e8d68fca-ddaf-44b8-9ce0-2cfd761adf06
What is the term for the process in which two atomic nuclei fuse together to make a single nucleus?
[ "binding", "fusion", "fission", "absorption" ]
fusion
sciq
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In human beings, when a female becomes pregnant, what is fertilized and then embedded in the uterus?
[ "sperm", "follicle", "dna", "egg" ]
egg
sciq
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What has increased the greenhouse effect?
[ "human actions", "temperature changes", "ozone depletion", "climate change" ]
human actions
sciq
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How many pairs of chromosomes are there?
[ "16", "24", "25", "23" ]
23
sciq
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What structure passes oxygen and nutrients to a growing fetus in mammals?
[ "spinal cord", "placenta", "vas deferens", "uterus" ]
placenta
sciq
a2dfc349-3836-46e8-894d-e9318e5f2ae4
Light from a distant galaxy can travel different paths to the earth because it is bent around an intermediary galaxy by what?
[ "gravity", "variation", "radiation", "strength" ]
gravity
sciq
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What is the fruiting body that occurs after two hyphae mate and form a mycelium with sporangia?
[ "mushroom", "fungus", "mold", "yeast" ]
mushroom
sciq
86f15cfa-07d7-4092-9752-7d6d2e42242a
What branch of science aims to understand all about our planet and its environments?
[ "immunology", "petrology", "earth science", "biology" ]
earth science
sciq
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Prokaryotes are successful because of the ________ of reproduction in favorable environments
[ "speed", "order", "volume", "cycle" ]
speed
sciq
1f6f9deb-e7d1-4f1d-a1a4-f618e801c597
Where do benthos live in oceans?
[ "On the ocean surface", "In deep water", "In coral reefs", "on the ocean floor" ]
on the ocean floor
sciq
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Hundreds of organelles called myofibrils, made up of two types of protein filaments, are contained in each fiber of what?
[ "muscle", "bone", "cartilage", "hair" ]
muscle
sciq
cc96e693-a2f1-43b5-8ba1-a31229192c6e
What is the largest known virus?
[ "pneumonia virus", "polyomavirus", "influenza virus", "mimivirus" ]
mimivirus
sciq
5446d2b1-11cf-4f42-bd0b-56257632976f
The temperature at which something melts is refered to as what?
[ "melting point", "boiling point", "precipitation point", "evaporation point" ]
melting point
sciq
b504cfd0-696a-4364-8361-ea444b885c7c
Solid bedrock vibrates less and therefore does less of what to bedrock?
[ "damage", "dampen", "butress", "block" ]
damage
sciq
d63b532b-2194-4a0e-bbc2-f28076079d75
What branch of science is defined as the study of matter?
[ "geology", "astrophysics", "chemistry", "biology" ]
chemistry
sciq
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What are animals that live with tiny zooxanthellae that also photosynthesize?
[ "worms", "bacteria", "coral", "fungi" ]
coral
sciq
a02a0558-cff2-4da3-b1fc-b7cf5a42e17d
What usually causes fractures on a bone?
[ "compressive stress", "extra weight", "shear stress", "excessive bending stress" ]
excessive bending stress
sciq
e48490de-7d1c-4715-95d9-755b8028f96c
What is the magnetic field traditionally referred to as?
[ "spicule", "m-field", "charged field", "bfield" ]
bfield
sciq
57bf6298-5943-4cc6-8a0b-14bd333e7f10
What can ultimately result when species are introduced to a new place and prey on other species?
[ "depletion", "over population", "extinction", "elimination" ]
extinction
sciq
48134c0e-a4d8-4930-a83a-9aacd6e70686
In humans, what is the first organ to form and become functional?
[ "pancreas", "liver", "brain", "heart" ]
heart
sciq
9978c15e-8514-4ada-a42a-96177565a531
What is used to classify tornadoes?
[ "humidity, rain", "seismograph", "damage, snowfall", "wind speed, damage" ]
wind speed, damage
sciq
8297f1f3-a868-4e8a-9081-247037d8b2b3
What do you call materials that have high resistance to electric current?
[ "conductors", "destructive insulators", "electric insulators", "semiconductors" ]
electric insulators
sciq
f247b8b6-4048-40ae-a6bc-47fc786e112a
What term is used to describe the development of new technology?
[ "variation design", "technological design", "evident design", "Smart Design" ]
technological design
sciq
dd3a6ed1-876a-4ab0-9ca5-3c16391a4c66
Cell walls, plastids, and a large central vacuole distinguish plant cells from what?
[ "phloem cells", "eukaryotic cells", "parenchyma cells", "animal cells" ]
animal cells
sciq
f365cf16-4f5d-4c19-afbc-40610c04957b
Snails, scallops, and squids are what type of invertebrate?
[ "algae", "mollusk", "arthropod", "crustacean" ]
mollusk
sciq
ef7ff27c-bb0e-4176-80dc-4139f27c8ecd
Humans create different breeds of organisms using what kind of selection?
[ "biased selection", "artificial selection", "speciation", "natural selection" ]
artificial selection
sciq
29cdc1ca-0ea7-40fa-9aae-378be2ccb6e1
The word antibiotic comes from the greek anti, meaning “against,” and bios, meaning this?
[ "bacteria", "virus", "germ", "life" ]
life
sciq
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What are sudden and dramatic losses of biodiversity called?
[ "normal extinction", "mass extinction", "explosive extinction", "life extinction" ]
mass extinction
sciq
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The ions in ionic compounds are arranged in rigid three-dimensional patterns called what?
[ "pattern lattices", "crystal lattices", "core lattices", "lattice groups" ]
crystal lattices
sciq
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Where was the distinction between total distance traveled and displacement first noted?
[ "string theory", "one-dimensional kinematics", "uncertainty principle", "Newton's first law" ]
one-dimensional kinematics
sciq
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What science is the study of the shape and arrangement of cells in tissue?
[ "genetics", "histology", "cellology", "methodology" ]
histology
sciq
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What forms when a sperm fertilizes and egg?
[ "zygote", "proton", "cytoplasm", "crystals" ]
zygote
sciq
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The field of organic chemistry studies the structure and reactivity of compounds containing what element?
[ "hydrogen", "carbon", "oxygen", "nitrogen" ]
carbon
sciq
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Where does growth in length occur, above the root cap?
[ "primary meristem", "primary tuber", "vascular cambrium", "apical meristem" ]
primary meristem
sciq
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Asci are used by mycelia for what kind of reproduction?
[ "cloning", "asexual reproduction", "mitosis", "sexual" ]
sexual
sciq
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What is the term used to describe the liquid that moves through the vessels and includes plasma and the cells and sell fragments called platelets?
[ "water", "bacteria", "pus", "blood" ]
blood
sciq
45b6c8b5-a6cc-438e-9546-afe125f33a3d
The density of bone is, in part, related to the amount of what mineral in one’s diet?
[ "barium", "potassium", "calcium", "nitrogen" ]
calcium
sciq
371d1fb3-c3eb-4042-ad70-076f8aba9262
What is the sum of the masses of the atoms in a molecule?
[ "mass effect", "atomic energy", "compound mass", "molecular mass" ]
molecular mass
sciq
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Chloroplasts, leucoplasts and chromoplasts are found in what type of cells?
[ "nitrogen cells", "animal cells", "plant cells", "man-made cells" ]
plant cells
sciq
93eebf94-bfa2-4e6b-93b6-01c3471e1b0c
Salt in seawater causes it to have greater what, which is also affected by temperature and pressure?
[ "density", "volume", "mass", "area" ]
density
sciq
6196aec7-1d1d-4a0b-b530-a3222510c7ba
What is the name of a long and low hill of sediments which have been deposited by a glacier?
[ "a mountain", "a drumlin", "a crag", "a floodplain" ]
a drumlin
sciq
1927a97b-65fe-48b3-b4d2-2bd74f31be3f
The temperature of the products is typically lower than the temperature of the reactants in what type of reaction?
[ "autotrophic", "parabolic", "exothermic", "endothermic" ]
endothermic
sciq
a3f3b796-1953-4c5c-a5e3-136e09053af2
What is the most common type of cancer in adult females?
[ "lung", "skin", "bone", "breast" ]
breast
sciq
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Green plants known as producers provide basic food supply for what besides themselves?
[ "minerals", "water", "air", "animals" ]
animals
sciq
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The lipids that are connected to the glucose pathways are cholesterol and triglycerides. cholesterol is a lipid that contributes to cell membrane flexibility and is a precursor of this?
[ "steroid hormones", "ammonia hormones", "Somatostatin", "Thrombopoietin" ]
steroid hormones
sciq
6ad2d8f6-6f07-4fed-8d21-9e66fb8f69cd
What chemical reaction is the opposite of oxidation?
[ "evaporation", "mutation", "condensation", "reduction" ]
reduction
sciq
053b8011-0533-4d2d-b8f6-a1b08db2d1cc
What structure is a larger assembly of several polypeptide chains that are now referred to as subunits of the protein?
[ "geological structure", "pyramid structure", "quaternary structure", "digital structure" ]
quaternary structure
sciq
2d286d41-8435-4872-9a0a-fbaa89216ede
The punnett square shows the possible what, and their most likely ratios?
[ "genotypes", "receptors", "chromosomes", "phenotypes" ]
genotypes
sciq
ace95330-e852-4548-adbc-6501c492253c
Angiosperms produce their gametes in separate organs, which are usually housed in these?
[ "leaves", "stems", "flowers", "seeds" ]
flowers
sciq
b3ce2f1e-0c65-4ece-bb92-b0818cd6ae0e
What are the two types of charges?
[ "volume and acceleration", "ions and neutrons", "positive and negative", "energy and mass" ]
positive and negative
sciq
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What is the name for a change in a single nucleotide in dna?
[ "adaptation", "spontaneous mutation", "cell regeneration", "point mutation" ]
point mutation
sciq
4bfa6f91-8b1f-453d-bfac-cf32f987eeda
Ocean acidification results from the ocean absorbing what gas from the atmosphere?
[ "carbon dioxide", "hydrogen", "oxygen", "nitrogen" ]
carbon dioxide
sciq
906eea16-81c1-46da-94c7-41dd2b1d6988
What are organisms that feed on available plants called?
[ "plantfeeders", "grazers", "antigens", "florophores" ]
grazers
sciq
0dc329d2-db6a-48cb-80d5-c7a93284cc70
What is the limiting factor for bacteria in a dish?
[ "space", "speed", "density", "material" ]
space
sciq