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bed93f63-400d-461f-beb5-b23609107afb
What glands in the breast secrete milk?
[ "adrenal glands", "fetal glands", "primordial glands", "mammary glands" ]
mammary glands
sciq
966e11cf-fbfe-4771-a9fa-a206038eb985
Sutures, gomphoses, and syndesmoses are types of what, which are found where adjacent bones are strongly united by connective tissue?
[ "metallic joints", "cartilage", "fibrous joints", "ligaments" ]
fibrous joints
sciq
29f41c68-d4c9-40d5-b9f2-feda0aa14cb2
Heat, electricity, or light might provide what necessary input to the process of decomposition?
[ "energy", "food", "material", "source" ]
energy
sciq
5356977f-5b13-4bcb-b74f-569610e4df6c
What is made up of a watery substance called cytosol and contains other cell structures such as ribosomes?
[ "cytoplasm", "cytoskeleton", "rna", "plasma" ]
cytoplasm
sciq
5ba91ae8-f75b-4f0c-846a-5de651147dd8
What type of energy is required in all chemical reactions?
[ "function", "conduction", "activation", "solar" ]
activation
sciq
983985cc-7320-492e-8dcf-c6a57c6782f6
What type of image is formed when light rays diverge in front of a mirror?
[ "reversed", "fake", "virtual", "large" ]
virtual
sciq
1158bc6d-f02a-42a4-9ce5-c3b6b2b0b168
What is the condition of a plant in which the fluid in a cell exerts a pressure against the cell wall?
[ "hydration", "constriction", "turgor", "tumor" ]
turgor
sciq
3671eacb-67c2-49c0-9e20-b837be749e3f
What phenomenon, crucial for evolution, creates new genetic variation in a gene pool and is how all new alleles first arise?
[ "adaptation", "natural selection", "radiation", "mutation" ]
mutation
sciq
aad95f00-ead2-4baa-98f2-f51e23c4c95f
What is the name of the stage of life when a child becomes sexually mature?
[ "reproductive stage", "pre-adolescence", "puberty", "adulthood" ]
puberty
sciq
7d45b5f0-923a-4d8b-bfc6-6df0707a985a
A man made lake is known as what?
[ "resevoirs", "Lake", "Lagoon", "Pond" ]
resevoirs
sciq
53926fcc-8fea-417b-9273-16c656e69689
Alchemy helped improve the study of metallurgy and the extraction of metals from what?
[ "air", "wood", "water", "ores" ]
ores
sciq
4cf18962-5137-4f3a-a359-ba84364c2da1
What are the two types of vascular tissues?
[ "epidermis and phloem", "ectoderm and phloem", "xylem and phloem", "ganglia and phloem" ]
xylem and phloem
sciq
fc1145c0-b053-4454-9938-5ec03718401e
The spinal cord develops, cells making up the wall of the neural tube proliferate and differentiate into what?
[ "membrane and glia", "jelly and glia", "muscles and glia", "neurons and glia" ]
neurons and glia
sciq
4239addd-eedf-4e88-b5b6-489826d7b63e
Eventually the parent cell will pinch apart to form two identical types of what cells?
[ "son cells", "father cells", "brother cells", "daughter cells" ]
daughter cells
sciq
b09e55f3-3d6b-4452-8621-cd5ea8ea5e7e
The body cells cannot use insulin properly in which type of diabetes?
[ "type 2 diabetes", "type 3 diabates", "type 4 diabetes", "type 1 diabetes" ]
type 2 diabetes
sciq
56619213-8e40-44dd-8631-e903d5ddb053
Birds belong to a group of diapsids called the what?
[ "archosaurs", "conifers", "aviators", "mammals" ]
archosaurs
sciq
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How many limbs to birds have?
[ "ten", "five", "six", "four" ]
four
sciq
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Planes fly in what layer of the atmosphere because there is less friction and turbulence?
[ "crust", "ozone layer", "mesosphere", "stratosphere" ]
stratosphere
sciq
51593214-6538-4d85-ad93-7aed2601793a
What is a group of similar ecosystems with the same general abiotic factors and primary producers?
[ "biome", "family", "taxon", "ecoregion" ]
biome
sciq
9d0501d5-a3d0-45cc-ab70-ce9318e3e9f1
Interferons are produced in virally infected cells and cause them to secrete signals for surrounding cells to make what?
[ "overwhelm proteins", "Raising Proteins", "antiviral proteins", "resist proteins" ]
antiviral proteins
sciq
1530e71e-7598-47ca-851c-608af121f71d
What slow process is required for formation of soil?
[ "weathering", "fossilization", "leaching", "digestion" ]
weathering
sciq
6a7e8a6a-2919-4781-8c70-eb7be509235c
What is defined as superheated gas with a positive electrical charge?
[ "supernova", "plasma", "ion", "greenhouse gas" ]
plasma
sciq
44b3352a-ab43-4774-bb14-44a3d165ef85
Materials, such as iron, that exhibit strong magnetic effects are labeled what?
[ "paramagnetic", "superconducting", "ferromagnetic", "ultramagnetic" ]
ferromagnetic
sciq
f41747ba-3dd8-4c65-b6ba-3ed3d4d1791a
Like birds, most other reptiles excrete their nitrogenous wastes as what acid?
[ "lactic", "uric", "hydrochloric", "sulphuric" ]
uric
sciq
8ca5b9cb-711c-4295-b507-a9676bea08f3
The two main fundamental particles that make up neutrons are quarks and what else?
[ "atoms", "gluons", "leptons", "prions" ]
gluons
sciq
436b30c9-8537-47d4-b818-1575cad1e9ac
Birds have evolved a respiratory system that enables them to fly. flying is a high-energy process and requires a lot of this?
[ "adaptation", "oxygen", "weight", "nitrogen" ]
oxygen
sciq
95ff814f-72b3-4414-88c2-35f58d48df01
Lysosomes have what type of enzymes that break down old molecules into parts that can be recycled?
[ "probiotics", "digestive", "corrosive", "bacterial" ]
digestive
sciq
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The breasts contain what to give milk to feed a baby?
[ "sebaceous glands", "fetal glands", "primordial glands", "mammary glands" ]
mammary glands
sciq
96cdf227-6306-4e13-92fa-a20a3f1df963
What form when water vapor condenses in the air around specs of matter?
[ "humidity", "storms", "condensation", "clouds" ]
clouds
sciq
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All other forms of life, including plants and animals, are composed of what kind of cells?
[ "cytoplasmic", "eukaryotic", "bacterial", "synthetic" ]
eukaryotic
sciq
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A mycorrhiza refers to what kind of relationship between a fungus and the roots of a plant?
[ "predator-prey", "symbiotic", "semantic", "familial" ]
symbiotic
sciq
d7a15148-ac78-445a-9db6-c586a7eb3c60
What is earth's main source of energy?
[ "the moon", "the sun", "the atmosphere", "the core" ]
the sun
sciq
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Kirchhoff’s second rule (the loop rule) is an application of conservation of what?
[ "mineral", "energy", "Rock", "heating" ]
energy
sciq
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Evolution over a short period of time at the level of the population is called what?
[ "redistributions", "macroevolution", "microevolution", "grammaticalization" ]
microevolution
sciq
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When water is heated by magma and makes it's way to the surface what is created?
[ "volcanic", "trough", "eruption", "geyser" ]
geyser
sciq
e664d4c3-ba9d-412c-b042-9dbbb6af9df1
The mechanical and digestive processes have one goal: to convert food into molecules small enough to be absorbed by the epithelial cells of what?
[ "bile ducts", "stomach cilia", "alveoli", "intestinal villi" ]
intestinal villi
sciq
86025438-cdb2-4328-835c-ac17e5bd85aa
Influenza virus is packaged in a viral envelope, which fuses with the what?
[ "nucleus", "cell wall", "bacteria", "plasma membrane" ]
plasma membrane
sciq
a53b698f-aba9-4083-8be4-9901ea7b6cec
A desert is a type of what community in an ecosystem?
[ "culture", "biome", "population", "colony" ]
biome
sciq
92fe854e-fba2-47a3-9811-58219de2da18
What are the two types of properties that matter has?
[ "composition and weight", "size and shape", "physical and chemical", "nature and purpose" ]
physical and chemical
sciq
21905d38-fa91-4440-bc3f-1f27efb85cfd
What is the hormone produced in high-stress situations?
[ "adrenalin", "testosterone", "somatostatin", "thyroxine" ]
adrenalin
sciq
23773f60-ee44-45f1-8b2e-71247949f8fd
What type of reaction causes two substances to combine to make a single substance?
[ "composition reaction", "spontaneous mutation", "metabolism", "component reaction" ]
composition reaction
sciq
24a3b409-4a8a-4d0d-8bec-bdbd5f4c9f2f
Hay fever is actually an allergy to what substance, vital to plant reproduction?
[ "grass", "fungi", "pollen", "nitrogen" ]
pollen
sciq
e9970f83-246e-42fa-b230-df7d1053bbc1
Endotherms are warmed mostly by heat generated by what?
[ "metabolism", "electricity", "the sun", "movement" ]
metabolism
sciq
e324fe05-88d9-4a4f-81a4-a3c14d333d0b
If a ball is released from rest when air resistance is negligible, velocity is seen to increase linearly, while what related property is a constant?
[ "acceleration", "speed", "density", "time" ]
acceleration
sciq
9e4c463a-b744-482a-9cb8-eda214f713f7
What term is used to describe the ability of matter to burn?
[ "permeability", "flammability", "reactivity", "volatility" ]
flammability
sciq
28dbb658-9025-4e61-a869-749b31e0f13b
What is the evolutionary history of group of related organisms
[ "phylogeny", "history", "iteration", "substructure" ]
phylogeny
sciq
8bd3d9c2-265c-4475-82a6-68c6fb780e9f
What forms a ketone when oxidized?
[ "enzyme", "secondary alcohol", "carbolic acid", "aldehyde" ]
secondary alcohol
sciq
ca64122a-5c84-42e5-b688-732c0d4011f4
What is the energy that flows as a result of a difference in temperature?
[ "polarity", "magnetism", "heat", "electricity" ]
heat
sciq
6ac8dccf-1b21-48c1-8005-60293a44b24b
Exposure to toxins is most damaging during weeks 4 through 8 of the embryonic stage due to development of what during this period?
[ "faith", "organs", "samples", "pain" ]
organs
sciq
af3f16fd-aeb3-4a1b-92e7-b0be07e86a44
What evolutionary process may affect the distribution of a polygenic trait?
[ "characteristic selection", "flow selection", "artificial selection", "natural selection" ]
natural selection
sciq
971ec6b2-6867-4070-a6c2-ba3571c017c8
What type of force exists between two touching surfaces?
[ "friction", "tension", "centrifugal", "opposing" ]
friction
sciq
15a4b582-4ce2-46d9-b54c-ffab46dfc11c
A short reflex is completely what and only involves the local integration of sensory input with motor output?
[ "neuronal", "central", "peripheral", "physiological" ]
peripheral
sciq
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The urea cycle, a set of biochemical reactions that produces urea from ammonium ions to prevent toxicity, occurs to some extent in the kidney, but primarily in what organ?
[ "liver", "skin", "colon", "spleen" ]
liver
sciq
77782204-ec5b-40e3-942e-b8dd4cb3ef51
Cellular respiration is the reverse or opposite of what?
[ "glycolysis", "photosynthesis", "reproduction", "spermatogenesis" ]
photosynthesis
sciq
7ebd928d-c9b8-4afb-afd1-2de727b46c16
What force pulls object downwards to the earth?
[ "gravity", "kinetic energy", "momentum", "motion" ]
gravity
sciq
80514424-4dd2-40ca-b082-2f7d7ee672ec
How does deeper material cause convection in the mantle?
[ "folds", "sinks then rises", "rises then sinks", "remains stable" ]
rises then sinks
sciq
91511da7-ff36-46f3-9481-0ffda6165abd
From what did the first proto-oncogenes arise?
[ "carcinogens", "viral infections", "bacteria", "spores" ]
viral infections
sciq
679a6f2a-80d9-45c4-b37a-4ff3513e193e
What material used for helium-filled balloons is dense, strong and opaque, with a high molecular mass that forms films that have many fewer pores than rubber?
[ "fiberglass", "foil", "cellophane", "mylar" ]
mylar
sciq
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What do erythrocytes carry and deliver to tissues in the body?
[ "Helium", "carbon", "oxygen", "oxide" ]
oxygen
sciq
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How many neutrons do 99% of carbon atoms have?
[ "five", "sixteen", "six", "eight" ]
six
sciq
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What are the two metals within a battery called?
[ "sheath and a cathode", "anode and a cathode", "anode and diode", "anode and sheath" ]
anode and a cathode
sciq
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What is one thing that can not happen to energy?
[ "it can not be destroyed", "it cannot stay the same", "it cannot increase", "it cannot decrease" ]
it can not be destroyed
sciq
c2f41641-8ff9-419a-980a-6a6d82d8f4ec
Where do most biochemical reactions take place?
[ "stomach", "upper atmosphere", "within cells", "outside of cells" ]
within cells
sciq
e4017228-3bc1-4649-bdd9-d22562964190
The ends of linear chromosomes are maintained by the action of which enzyme?
[ "telomerase", "cytokine", "insulin", "pepsin" ]
telomerase
sciq
2705a088-5a2e-4458-8825-a952a087fe68
Through which process does water from the oceans enter the atmosphere?
[ "evaporation", "oxidation", "absorption", "perspiration" ]
evaporation
sciq
5c418649-0350-46e8-8723-e1f0065757e4
In what type of process does heat flow into its surroundings and cause an increase in kinetic energy?
[ "biochemical process", "exothermic process", "chemical process", "oscillating process" ]
exothermic process
sciq
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Prokaryotic organisms, like bacteria, reproduce through what process, where they grow and divide in half?
[ "symbiotic fission", "singular fission", "multiple fission", "binary fission" ]
binary fission
sciq
d3b0fc73-3cd4-4d51-9eaa-4dd772aa7b1e
Displacement is a vector quantity, which means it has both direction and what else?
[ "magnitude", "waves", "radiation", "rate" ]
magnitude
sciq
f2d199a2-ce72-4ec7-bb54-f2155bf8f06e
Waste leaves the body in the form of what?
[ "saliva", "feces", "stomach acid", "impurities" ]
feces
sciq
d499a73b-30fd-48be-9d95-589ee249954b
What process can occur when atoms are exposed to high levels of radiation or when atoms transfer electrons to or from other atoms?
[ "ionization", "fusion", "diffusion", "oxidation" ]
ionization
sciq
615290c7-ba8e-47da-85c0-4ca443dea65b
Who should an obese person with an eating disorder seek for help?
[ "body builder", "health professional", "social worker", "psychiatrist" ]
health professional
sciq
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The period of life between the start of puberty and the beginning of adulthood is called?
[ "youth", "adolescence", "prenatal", "old age" ]
adolescence
sciq
cb4dd488-6d60-4353-925b-8b01a2172e19
What element once commonly used in paint and gasoline has now been found to have dangerous effects?
[ "plastic", "lead", "niacin", "chromium" ]
lead
sciq
bde2bb61-108c-4a9c-b9dd-50ecdab400b3
What can happen spontaneously or as a result of mutagens in the environment?
[ "lesions", "combustion", "mutations", "traits" ]
mutations
sciq
aeb6e5a3-b5fa-4183-a18e-5611fcfcdad4
Abnormally high activity or low activity of the parathyroid gland can cause disorders related to levels of what bone mineral?
[ "collagen", "potassium", "magnesium", "calcium" ]
calcium
sciq
d00c197d-4204-4eec-8d3f-f2f154c0bd10
Unlike other tetrapod vertebrates (reptiles, birds, and mammals), amphibians do not produce what type of eggs?
[ "amniotic", "prokaryotic", "epithelial", "umbilical" ]
amniotic
sciq
100c766c-886e-495c-a54b-2574e2dff733
What is the name for an underground layer of rock that is saturated with groundwater?
[ "gradient", "aquifer", "aqueous cavity", "artesian well" ]
aquifer
sciq
2bb9223e-e7a8-4bff-bcff-ce1f838bfa4a
What are prepared by the oxidation of secondary alcohols?
[ "ions", "ketones", "protons", "more alcohol" ]
ketones
sciq
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Saturated and unsaturated are the two main kinds of what?
[ "acids", "polymers", "sugars", "fats" ]
fats
sciq
c1a844fc-69f5-484e-b863-ff4d0bf95f47
Most reptiles lay what kind of eggs?
[ "amniotic", "umbilical", "roe", "hard-shelled" ]
amniotic
sciq
0c449911-3b4a-4583-8ce6-4da1636250c9
Sulfur can combine with oxygen to produce what?
[ "sulfur dioxide", "sulfur trioxide", "sulfur oxide", "sulfur bioxide" ]
sulfur trioxide
sciq
de4fccf2-7425-48c8-bcda-3a23bbb80e8c
The nitrogen that enters living systems by nitrogen fixation is successively converted from organic nitrogen back into nitrogen gas by what?
[ "bacteria", "algae", "viruses", "pollen" ]
bacteria
sciq
28aacb23-cd54-4247-a782-bbf733c95fa3
What term describes the amount of solute in a given amount of solution?
[ "temperature", "density", "concentration", "cloudiness" ]
concentration
sciq
98d5037f-a0e2-4a14-be4b-a4738b75ee5d
Which process helps absorptive protists absorb food molecules across their cell membranes?
[ "diffusion", "metabolism", "activation", "secretion" ]
diffusion
sciq
40d6dbe7-f23b-4506-ab18-77824cdba470
When matter recycles and changes state what does it gain or lose by doing so?
[ "density", "volume", "energy", "fuel" ]
energy
sciq
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Where does oxygen enter the blood?
[ "in the veins", "in the liver", "in the heart", "in the lungs" ]
in the lungs
sciq
0c9fe6f0-bd1e-42d1-a51f-dd99c568045e
What kind of compounds change color when bases come into contact with them, so they can be used to detect bases?
[ "liquid", "parameters", "indicators", "metals" ]
indicators
sciq
3e93a542-56ac-4e85-ae06-50e97ef771ad
Concentric circles that spread out through the water around the droplets are actually types of what moving through the water?
[ "winds", "troughs", "waves", "lines" ]
waves
sciq
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The smallest units of matter that retain the unique properties of an element are known as what?
[ "atoms", "protons", "molecules", "neutrons" ]
atoms
sciq
ff99e1f0-e7b1-4983-a7e1-36fbecafba70
What is a process that changes some chemical substances into other chemical substances?
[ "a bio reaction", "spontaneous mutation", "a chemical reaction", "cellular respiration" ]
a chemical reaction
sciq
881358d6-0c1d-4eea-b79c-23a702162c5b
What type of lens and mirrors have a negative focal length?
[ "convexing", "converging", "diverging", "subverging" ]
diverging
sciq
a430e16a-87b7-4ad4-bd55-210d004db77a
What is the formation of organs from the germ layers called?
[ "photosynthesis", "synaptogenesis", "organogenesis", "biosynthesis" ]
organogenesis
sciq
3c9b7d59-f71d-4373-9711-df74eac168e8
What must two nuclei do for fusion to occur?
[ "melt", "explode", "repel each other", "collide" ]
collide
sciq
04fbf4af-e540-43bf-ba94-8c7c2235ea3c
What determines the ability of soil particles to bind many nutrients?
[ "currents charges", "layer charges", "surface charges", "surface pulses" ]
surface charges
sciq
cc388d3b-c5b0-452f-a0d0-48f242e926ce
Enthalpy is a measure of the total energy of what kind of system?
[ "hypodermic", "thermodynamic", "macroscopic", "planetary" ]
thermodynamic
sciq
c198f01a-f293-404b-ad8e-150aa2749cc0
In eukaryotes, the new mrna is not yet ready for translation. it must go through more processing before it leaves where?
[ "nucleus", "Electrons", "protons", "molecules" ]
nucleus
sciq
e56c6423-86f6-4504-a287-5d16c1c8d5c6
What term describes the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into two smaller nuclei?
[ "critical fission", "nuclear fission", "atomic reaction", "nuclean fusion" ]
nuclear fission
sciq
f4ba66bd-a0c3-49b6-be1a-93c51696b25e
What type of contamination causes almost 90% of diarrheal disease worldwide?
[ "air contamination", "food contamination", "water supply contamination", "ground contamination" ]
water supply contamination
sciq
5ab074ff-f872-46e7-9fe9-b1a7af978248
Why is respiratory acidosis considered to be problematic?
[ "excess oxygen in blood", "causes suffocation", "causes acid stomach", "excess co2 in blood" ]
excess co2 in blood
sciq
3102fd55-09c2-4c81-adac-965dc04a3580
When light strikes rhodopsin, the g-protein transducin is activated, which in turn activates what?
[ "phosphodiesterase", "photosynthesis", "hydrolysis", "aldosterone" ]
phosphodiesterase
sciq