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The electric and magnetic fields are closely related and propagate as what?
[ "electromagnetic wave", "mechanical wave", "sound wave", "thermal energy" ]
electromagnetic wave
sciq
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What do you get by multiplying volume by the density of water?
[ "temperature of water", "mass of water", "velocity of water", "weight of water" ]
mass of water
sciq
815fa1f7-15f1-4604-9142-44df4cdde497
Plant-like protists are autotrophs capable of what process?
[ "photosynthesis", "sexual reproduction", "regeneration", "microevolution" ]
photosynthesis
sciq
d326b70d-f344-4c77-a440-5a202a38a365
What type of energy is useful to humans because it's ease of transport and conversion to other forms of energy?
[ "electrical", "potential", "heat", "physical" ]
electrical
sciq
a9c816e7-66e1-41b0-add5-c8a28d2c4707
When performing anaerobic exercise, your muscles work against what?
[ "gravity", "momentum", "inertia", "resistance" ]
resistance
sciq
4c76f244-bef7-42c5-b502-3c59ae07d858
What type of doctor specializes in the laboratory detection of disease?
[ "pathologist", "infectious disease physician", "diagnostician", "internist" ]
pathologist
sciq
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The smallest unit of structure and function in all living organisms is what?
[ "cell", "mineral", "compound", "particle" ]
cell
sciq
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Bilaterally symmetrical animals have both dorsal and what type of sides?
[ "ventral", "posterior", "exterior", "anterior" ]
ventral
sciq
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Which state of matter is not common on earth?
[ "liquid", "plasma", "gas", "respiration" ]
plasma
sciq
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Which system of the body is responsible for bringing air into the body?
[ "digestive system", "respiratory system", "excretory system", "vascular system" ]
respiratory system
sciq
a1f8fa42-0a8c-475a-a21b-630c8d34b8fe
The photoreceptive cells of the eye, where transduction of light to nervous impulses occurs, are located in this?
[ "retina", "cornea", "sclera", "pupil" ]
retina
sciq
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E. coli need what kind of acids to survive?
[ "boric", "hydrochloric", "bacterial", "amino" ]
amino
sciq
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Elements are defined by their atomic number, a number that describes the amount of what in the element?
[ "electrons", "bonds", "protons", "neutrons" ]
protons
sciq
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What laboratory instrument is used to analyze and test for static charge?
[ "bunsen burner", "electroscope", "microscope", "microtome" ]
electroscope
sciq
bbd5623a-db39-47a9-90c1-172f1f002845
Through a succession of mitotic cell divisions, what gives rise to a large number of cells?
[ "zygote", "condensation", "cytoplasm", "air" ]
zygote
sciq
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Contour tillage helps slow water run-off and what process that causes topsoil loss?
[ "ice shelf erosion", "soil erosion", "plate tectonics", "water erosion" ]
soil erosion
sciq
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In a scientific experiment, the variable that is affected by the other one is called what?
[ "dependent variable", "essential variable", "effective variable", "independent variable" ]
dependent variable
sciq
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Cells must also be able to separate their relatively stable interior from what?
[ "their habitat", "competition and chaos", "predators", "the external environment" ]
the external environment
sciq
9e3dbeca-77fa-4db0-a108-45edbaf3dc2e
For any given species, what term means the maximum population that can be supported by the environment?
[ "carrying capacity", "tipping point", "mass extinction", "zero population growth" ]
carrying capacity
sciq
3d165493-76c5-41f4-a5e9-4b4733d04337
With an increased understanding of gene regulation and gene function, medicines can be designed to specifically target diseased cells without harming these?
[ "pathogens", "hosts", "healthy cells", "stem cells" ]
healthy cells
sciq
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The rate of a reaction can be expressed either in terms of the decrease in the amount of what or the increase in the amount of a product per unit time?
[ "isotope", "plasma", "sulfate", "reactant" ]
reactant
sciq
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What do molecules need to do for a reaction to take place?
[ "melt", "explode", "collide", "separate" ]
collide
sciq
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What is the term for the change in temperature with distance?
[ "distance gradient", "temperature volatility", "heat gradient", "temperature gradient" ]
temperature gradient
sciq
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How many classes of biochemical compounds are there?
[ "three", "five", "one", "four" ]
four
sciq
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The fact that all animals have certain traits in common shows that they share what?
[ "a common brain", "a common planet", "a common ancestor", "a common gene" ]
a common ancestor
sciq
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Organisms that live in freshwater environments often possess a contractile vacuole that prevents cells from taking in too much water through what process?
[ "glycolysis", "osmosis", "electrolysis", "hemostasis" ]
osmosis
sciq
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What is the condition in which the thyroid gland is overactive is known as?
[ "hepatic", "susceptibility", "hypothyroidism", "hyperthyroidism" ]
hyperthyroidism
sciq
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Where do amphibians lay their eggs?
[ "in water", "on land", "in caves", "in airborne nests" ]
in water
sciq
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The food particles are caught by the collar of the choanocyte and brought into the cell by what process?
[ "phagocytosis", "cellular respiration", "hippocampus", "phototropism" ]
phagocytosis
sciq
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In seedless vascular plants such as ferns, the sporophyte releases spores from the undersides of what basic plant structures?
[ "roots", "leaves", "fruits", "stems" ]
leaves
sciq
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There are two basic body plans in cnidarians which are called the polyp and what else?
[ "spore", "hydra", "medusa", "stoma" ]
medusa
sciq
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In science, what is a bit of information that is true?
[ "lie", "theory", "a fact", "falsehood" ]
a fact
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What kind of potentially harmful compounds can barbecuing food create?
[ "carcinogens", "mutagens", "enzymes", "triglycerides" ]
carcinogens
sciq
bde985c4-4fd8-4711-8b0a-5ad4f72bbc56
Change in what equals the average net external force multiplied by the time this force acts?
[ "lag", "momentum", "rate", "height" ]
momentum
sciq
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What type of mammals are characterized by detailed development of the hands and feet, a shortened snout, and a large brain?
[ "apes", "primates", "mammles", "amphibians" ]
primates
sciq
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What process allows an individual to develop from a single cell into an organism with trillions of cells?
[ "cell transition", "Cell multiplication", "cell function", "cell division" ]
cell division
sciq
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What do you call the membrane-bounded droplets that have some properties of cells?
[ "protocells", "rods", "membranes.", "sporozoans" ]
protocells
sciq
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Bees are naturalized on every continent except which?
[ "antarctica", "Africa", "North America", "Australia" ]
antarctica
sciq
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In arthropods, coxal glands and malphigian tubules perform what role?
[ "photosynthesis", "ingestion", "excretion", "reproduction" ]
excretion
sciq
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What is the ultimate source of energy for all life on earth?
[ "the moon", "Mars", "the sun", "its core" ]
the sun
sciq
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What do you call compounds whose properties are different because their atoms are bonded together in different arrangements?
[ "isomers", "ionic compounds", "isotopes", "mixtures" ]
isomers
sciq
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What celestial object has been visited by manned spacecraft and is easily seen from earth?
[ "Jupiter", "moon", "venus", "the Sun" ]
moon
sciq
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What do you call a condition caused by mutations in one or more genes?
[ "genetic disorder", "evolutionary disorder", "intrinsic disorder", "mutation disorder" ]
genetic disorder
sciq
11c486a3-a59c-410e-a5ef-9c4afe21671a
What is the common term for erythrocytesare, specialized cells that circulate delivering oxygen to cells and are formed from stem cells in the bone marrow?
[ "monocytes", "white blood cells", "red blood cells", "plateletes" ]
red blood cells
sciq
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When do glaciers deposit their sediment?
[ "when they melt", "when they form", "when they move", "when they are new" ]
when they melt
sciq
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One of the earliest air pumps was made by?
[ "Niels Bohr", "Isaac Newton", "robert boyle", "Galileo" ]
robert boyle
sciq
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Terrestrial biomes are determined mainly by what?
[ "population", "climate", "element", "landscape" ]
climate
sciq
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What are scientists able to determine about stars using emission and absorption spectra?
[ "distance", "size", "shape", "composition" ]
composition
sciq
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Scientists search for answers to questions and solutions to problems by using a procedure called this?
[ "scientific method", "continued method", "careful method", "measured method" ]
scientific method
sciq
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What transmits nerve impulses to other cells?
[ "muscles", "neurons", "ions", "fats" ]
neurons
sciq
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The active transport of ions across the membrane causes an electrical gradient to build up across the what?
[ "components membrane", "colloidal membrane", "cells membrane", "plasma membrane" ]
plasma membrane
sciq
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What process determines which of two fossils is older or younger than the other?
[ "difference dating", "curve dating", "relative dating", "differential dating" ]
relative dating
sciq
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Under which process do living things with beneficial traits produce more offspring?
[ "evolution", "migration", "differentiation", "natural selection" ]
natural selection
sciq
fdf31b9e-0647-478e-afaf-4e232bbfc8fb
Biceps brachii, brachialis, and brachioradialis work to flex what part of the body?
[ "forearm", "leg", "foot", "lungs" ]
forearm
sciq
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Cancer involves what changes that modify cell-cycle control and alter the growth rate or progression of the cell through the cell cycle?
[ "deletions", "enhancements", "stabilization", "mutations" ]
mutations
sciq
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Glucose, fructose, and galactose are hexose sugars, which contain six atoms of what element?
[ "hydrogen", "carbon", "oxygen", "nitrogen" ]
carbon
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When an action and reaction occur, what is transferred from one object to the other, yet in combination it remains the same?
[ "matter", "momentum", "energy", "force" ]
momentum
sciq
ac5920ed-58ea-47d7-a381-5b35fd44a264
Which two planetary bodies have humans walked on?
[ "Mars and Jupiter", "The Sun and Mars", "earth and the moon", "Earth and Saturn" ]
earth and the moon
sciq
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The pion can only be created by violating the conservation of what?
[ "momentum", "quantum physics", "time-space", "mass-energy" ]
mass-energy
sciq
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What are named for their “spiny skin”?
[ "arachnids", "reptiles", "echinoderms", "amphibians" ]
echinoderms
sciq
2429bf7f-3224-404a-9354-ea48948fd9d8
What is formed when sperm mixes with secretions from the various other glands of the reproductive system?
[ "semen", "hormone", "testosterone", "urine" ]
semen
sciq
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Some plants have stolons, or stems, that run along the ground and are commonly called what?
[ "stages", "roots", "runners", "shoots" ]
runners
sciq
4eb9bae3-dbeb-4548-9584-63853b9e0d0a
Clearing land for agriculture and development is a major cause of what negative result?
[ "mineral destruction", "habitat destruction", "human destruction", "water destruction" ]
habitat destruction
sciq
4a37bc37-9bd2-4e13-998f-b4fea5581528
What in the skin dilates, or widens, in order to increase blood flow to the bodys surface?
[ "blood vessels", "veins", "pores", "tear ducts" ]
blood vessels
sciq
e902c9e2-4038-4a34-a98c-18c777360e42
What burns to produce the white light in fireworks displays?
[ "nitrogen in air", "magnesium in air", "helium in air", "oxygen in air" ]
magnesium in air
sciq
e53c8364-eec7-411a-8d32-3c5c24bbfe98
Solids can be divided into amorphous solids and which other group?
[ "distinct solids", "morphous solids", "acrystalline solids", "crystalline solids" ]
crystalline solids
sciq
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Some earthworms can also reproduce asexually by fragmentation followed by what?
[ "fertilization", "digestion", "regeneration", "germination" ]
regeneration
sciq
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Most crustaceans have separate sexes, so they reproduce sexually using what?
[ "asexual reproduction", "eggs and sperm", "pod and eggs", "eggs and pod" ]
eggs and sperm
sciq
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Visible light is one type of this radiation?
[ "Gamma", "neutron", "electromagnetic", "Ionizing" ]
electromagnetic
sciq
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Double-replacement reactions generally occur between substances in what kind of solution?
[ "reactive", "saline", "solid", "aqueous" ]
aqueous
sciq
b107b903-cb8a-4300-b0d0-3f282ccf77a5
What happens to the recessive traits in the offspring of a hybridization?
[ "they dominate", "they disappear", "remain recessive", "they replicate" ]
they disappear
sciq
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What is a small, spherical compartment separated by at least one lipid layer from the cytosol?
[ "vesicle", "cortex", "capillary", "cuticle" ]
vesicle
sciq
2a05dbf0-7828-4a10-b50c-3bb6156c37d4
What term is used to describe is the increased or decreased speed of movement of an organism in response to a stimulus?
[ "brownian motion", "orthokinesis", "telekinesis", "klinokinesis" ]
orthokinesis
sciq
c18d4e99-6ed6-4b52-bfbe-2e4202a4b4da
How can natural resources be classified from a human point of view?
[ "recyclable or reusable", "present or nonrenewable", "renewable or nonrenewable", "renewable or reversible" ]
renewable or nonrenewable
sciq
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What are the two types of endoplasmic reticulum?
[ "rough & thin", "thick & smooth", "rough & thick", "rough & smooth" ]
rough & smooth
sciq
1450c2ee-9023-43c8-9020-5ac8130c8add
We know from what type of waves produced by earthquakes that parts of the interior of the earth are liquid?
[ "seismic", "kinetic", "volcanic", "electromagnetic" ]
seismic
sciq
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Radiocarbon is useful for dating relatively young materials with what element as their base?
[ "hydrogen", "carbon", "oxygen", "nitrogen" ]
carbon
sciq
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Why are eutherian mammals sometimes called placental mammals?
[ "identical placental connection", "minor placental connection", "complex placental connection", "reacts placental connection" ]
complex placental connection
sciq
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What is the name for the division of the cytoplasm in eukaryotic cells, resulting in two genetically identical daughter cells?
[ "vegetative division", "mitosis", "cytokinesis", "metamorphosis" ]
cytokinesis
sciq
d708ebff-91e5-48c3-a8a8-5ddd0cf72540
How can you prevent food allergy symptoms?
[ "avoid offending foods", "antioxidants", "stem cell therapy", "antiviral drugs" ]
avoid offending foods
sciq
1ffaec1c-9787-4cff-a093-817c975b30c0
Ground tissue forms the interior of the stem. the large central vacuoles of ground tissue cells fill with water to support the plant. the cells may also store what?
[ "Water", "fuel", "energy", "food" ]
food
sciq
af82a22e-db50-43d3-a4d0-473cbad2ca7c
Insect wings are part of the exoskeleton and attached to the what?
[ "neck", "head", "thorax", "spines" ]
thorax
sciq
e3f7b318-46ed-4ce1-a7d9-4df79838bdf2
What was the informal female name given to the adult fossil found in ethiopia and thought to be over 3 million years old?
[ "aunt", "linda", "lucy", "alice" ]
lucy
sciq
9682ea6c-7cd0-4d6a-b807-5ea962fee8f3
What is the term for a formula that shows the elements in a compound in their lowest whole-number ratio?
[ "Dwarf Formula", "empirical formula", "measured formula", "intrinsic formula" ]
empirical formula
sciq
f29cdbec-b797-4cff-bbab-283851d286a7
What is defined as the spreading of white light into its full spectrum of wavelengths?
[ "immersion", "combustion", "saturation", "dispersion" ]
dispersion
sciq
519acb01-2d1e-46ba-ae9e-e77bf65037fd
What is used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses?
[ "bacteria", "dna", "viruses", "enzymes" ]
dna
sciq
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When methane burns, what is produced along with carbon dioxide?
[ "water", "hydrogen", "oxygen", "nitrogen" ]
water
sciq
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What helps pumice float in water?
[ "gravity", "gas bubble holes", "large mass", "high density" ]
gas bubble holes
sciq
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What land mammal has the longest gestation period?
[ "Rhino", "Giraffe", "Asian elephant", "african elephant" ]
african elephant
sciq
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What sustains the fetus while it grows inside the mother’s uterus?
[ "bacteria", "placenta", "mitochondria", "endometrium" ]
placenta
sciq
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Two kinds of sex hormones are of particular importance in females: progesterone, which prepares the uterus for pregnancy and prevents the further release of eggs from the ovaries during pregnancy, and the estrogens, which are mainly responsible for the development of female secondary sexual characteristics, such as bre...
[ "muscle", "fat", "bone", "blood" ]
fat
sciq
3cea9fd2-44b9-40b1-aec9-4207f2d630d1
Zoonotic pathogens are transferred from what to what?
[ "animals to animals", "humans to humans", "humans to animals", "animals to humans" ]
animals to humans
sciq
ceacafb8-3fbf-4a44-9ec9-94b11b7a15f9
Restriction enzymes or restriction endonucleases are prokaryotic enzymes that recognize and cut what at specific sequences?
[ "bacteria", "rna", "dna", "mitochondria" ]
dna
sciq
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What are chemical reactions represented by?
[ "carbon equations", "liquid equations", "nuclear equations", "chemical equations" ]
chemical equations
sciq
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The length of the sloped surface of a ramp is referred to as what?
[ "accumulation distance", "output distance", "input distance", "furlong" ]
input distance
sciq
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Producers, primary consumers, higher-level consumers, and decomposers are levels in what?
[ "food chain", "energy chain", "food model", "food flowchart" ]
food chain
sciq
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Parthenogenis in komodo dragons is an example of what kind of reproduction, whereby offspring are created from just one parent?
[ "natural reproduction", "asexual reproduction", "organic reproduction", "benthic reproduction" ]
asexual reproduction
sciq
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The value that occurs most often in a data set is called the?
[ "type", "median", "mode", "mean" ]
mode
sciq
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Over time, deposited sediments may harden into what?
[ "fossils", "rocks", "coral", "deltas" ]
rocks
sciq
ea811a55-ed32-4e4f-92fb-ca5db8d47e55
What is the most useful quantity for counting particles?
[ "the coefficient", "the mole", "the vector", "the periodic table" ]
the mole
sciq