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Question: What determines the length and thickness of dna chromosomes? Options: A. number of chromosomes B. type of dna C. degree of rna coiling D. degree of dna coiling Answer:
D
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Question: Volcanoes are termed active, dormant, or extinct depending on the possibility of the presence of what in chamber structures? Options: A. magma B. coal C. water D. sulpher Answer:
A
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Question: Worldwide, viruses seem to play a role in what percentage of the cases of human cancer? Options: A. 5% B. 20 % C. 15% D. +.15 % Answer:
C
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Question: The contents of which organ are mixed every 20 seconds? Options: A. kidney B. the metabolism C. the stomach D. pancreas Answer:
C
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Question: Living organisms are comprised of organic compounds, which are molecules built around what element? Options: A. oxygen B. silicon C. helium D. carbon Answer:
D
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Question: What do you call plastids that contain the green pigment chlorophyll? Options: A. Gerontoplasts B. Leucoplasts C. chloroplasts D. Chromoplasts Answer:
C
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Question: Starch is a large, complex carbohydrate made of thousands of _____ joined together? Options: A. glucose units (monomers) B. glucose orders ( monomers ) C. glucose divisions ( monomers ) D. glucose partitions ( monomers ) Answer:
A
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Question: Where is the fruiting body normally produced in relation to the food source? Options: A. at the surface B. at the root C. in the soil D. underneath the surface Answer:
A
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Question: Major climate types are based on what two things? Options: A. environment & precipitation B. temperature & precipitation C. oxygen & precipitation D. topography & temperature Answer:
B
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Question: What is the term for the use of radioactive decay to estimate the ages of fossils and rock? Options: A. microwave theory B. radioactive illustrating C. radioactive dating D. isotope test Answer:
C
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Question: Most receptors in the dermis are encapsulated by what? Options: A. pathogenic tissue B. tendons C. bone tissue D. connective tissue Answer:
D
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Question: What tool is useful for studying the ocean floor because the environment is remote and underwater? Options: A. scale B. microscope C. sonar D. telescope Answer:
C
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Question: The peripheral nervous system has major nerves that travel through every part of the body except which two places? Options: A. muscles and brain B. lungs and spinal cord C. brain and spinal cord D. brain and heart Answer:
C
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Question: What important aspect of the scientific method is a suggested explanation for an event, which can be tested? Options: A. string theory B. scientific control C. hypothesis D. independent variable Answer:
C
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Question: What is it called when breaks in bone occur that is usually caused by excessive stress on the bone? Options: A. fractures B. faults C. fragments D. ruptures Answer:
A
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Question: What filters pathogens and worn out red blood cells from the blood? Options: A. the bladder B. the spleen C. the stomach D. the pancreas Answer:
B
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Question: If two chlorine atoms share their unpaired electrons by making a covalent bond and forming cl2, they can each complete their what? Options: A. electron shell B. valence shell C. radiative shell D. hypothesized shell Answer:
B
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Question: The cells of all protists have a what? Options: A. nucleus B. cell walls C. protons D. argon Answer:
A
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Question: What are the key cells of an immune response? Options: A. keratinocytes B. histiocytes C. erythrocytes D. lymphocytes Answer:
D
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Question: Different colors of light differ in terms of which important attribute? Options: A. lenses B. wavelengths C. prisms D. frequencies Answer:
B
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Question: Each microspore develops into a pollen grain containing a male what? Options: A. progesterone B. zygote C. sperm D. gametophyte Answer:
D
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Question: Most liquid freshwater is under the ground in layers of what? Options: A. sand B. rock C. soil D. forest Answer:
B
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Question: Which vertebrates were the first with four limbs? Options: A. reptiles B. birds C. amphibians (or tetrapods) D. bony fishes Answer:
C
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Question: What is the layman's term for mammals raising their hair with tiny muscles in the skin, something that is automatic in humans sensing cold? Options: A. follicles B. hypothermia C. spine tingling D. goosebumps Answer:
D
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Question: What type of layers do animals' tissues develop from? Options: A. embryonic B. dermic C. cytoplasm D. transgenic Answer:
A
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Question: What is the diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane down its concentration gradient Options: A. mirrors B. nutrients C. Permable D. osmosis Answer:
D
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Question: What hormone, which is associated with luteinizing hormone and male sexuality, helps bring about physical changes in puberty? Options: A. estrogen B. steroids C. epinephrine D. testosterone Answer:
D
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Question: What term refers to the sequence of community and ecosystem changes after a disturbance? Options: A. ecological succession B. disturbance succession C. progressions D. physiological succession Answer:
A
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Question: What living things have cell walls containing cellulose and plastids such as chloroplasts? Options: A. reptiles B. plants C. animals D. mammals Answer:
B
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Question: Moist skin distinguishes frogs from what animal with dry, bumpy skin? Options: A. snakes B. turtles C. toads D. newts Answer:
C
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Question: What is stacked in layers in "layer cake geology"? Options: A. sediment B. horizontal stata C. soil D. rock stata Answer:
D
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Question: For most of a star’s life, hydrogen atoms fuse to form what? Options: A. helium atoms B. ionic atoms C. gas atoms D. neon atoms Answer:
A
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Question: What should a pregnant woman avoid while pregnant? Options: A. vitamins B. toxic substances C. rest and relaxation D. healthy food Answer:
B
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Question: Composite cones are steep-sided, cone-shaped types of what, which produce explosive eruptions? Options: A. volcanoes B. craters C. mountains D. earthquakes Answer:
A
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Question: A sprain is a strain or tear in what part of the body? Options: A. torso B. stomach C. a ligament D. skeleton Answer:
C
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Question: What is the primary cause of air movement in the troposphere? Options: A. differences in heating B. asteroids C. the ozone layer D. solar winds Answer:
A
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Question: What animal group can be found in every environment on earth, but primarily in the warm and moist tropics? Options: A. rodent B. insect C. horses D. reptiles Answer:
B
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Question: What two types of communication do both humans and birds use primarily? Options: A. material and auditory B. visual and auditory C. interaction and auditory D. sensual and auditory Answer:
B
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Question: What type of plants have vascular tissue but do not have seeds? Options: A. ofen vascular plants B. starchy vascular plants C. seedless vascular plants D. rocky vascular plants Answer:
C
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Question: What are the most common seedless vascular plants? Options: A. weeds B. ferns C. trees D. grasses Answer:
B
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Question: What controls what goes in and out of a cell? Options: A. the plasma membrane B. the mitochondria C. the cilia D. the nucleus Answer:
A
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Question: Squamata is the largest order of what broad animal group, and includes lizards and snakes? Options: A. mammals B. spiny fishes C. amphibians D. reptiles Answer:
D
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Question: Internal functions are coordinated and regulated so that the internal environment of a living thing is relatively constant, referred to as what? Options: A. homeostasis B. stabilizer C. homogenesis D. hypothesis Answer:
A
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Question: How can you calculate the density of matter? Options: A. by dividing its volume by its mass B. by multiplying its mass by its volume C. by dividing its mass by its volume D. by subtracting mass from volume Answer:
C
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Question: What were the first particles with mass to be directly confirmed to have the wavelength proposed by de broglie? Options: A. protons B. negatrons C. ions D. electrons Answer:
D
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Question: Electrons flow through the electrolyte from the ________ to __________ electrode. Options: A. negative; positive B. positive; negative C. neutral; negative D. negative; neutral Answer:
A
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Question: What broad group of animals - which includes rats, dogs and camels - have highly developed brains and often perform work for humans? Options: A. mammals B. reptiles C. amphibians D. arachnids Answer:
A
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Question: Natural selection can only take place if there is variation, or differences, among individuals in a population. importantly, these differences must have some genetic basis; otherwise, the selection will not lead to change in this? Options: A. next generation B. spontaneous mutation C. mass extinction D. fertilization Answer:
A
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Question: What is said to occur when both traits appear in a heterozygous offspring? Options: A. pollenation B. identical twins C. codominance D. xenophobia Answer:
C
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Question: What are made from highly reflective metal that is applied to a curved or flat piece of glass? Options: A. prisms B. lenses C. kaleidoscopes D. mirrors Answer:
D
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Question: How are protozoa that cause giardiasis spread? Options: A. starch and water B. lakes and rivers C. insects D. food and water Answer:
D
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Question: Which is the final step of cell division? Options: A. Mitosis B. genesys C. electrolysis D. cytokinesis Answer:
D
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Question: What type of reproduction only involves one parent? Options: A. organic B. primitive C. binary D. asexual Answer:
D
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Question: What is necessary in a person who wishes to play wind instruments? Options: A. vocal cords B. powerful lips C. healthy lungs D. strong hands Answer:
C
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Question: Lattice energy cannot be measured directly. what is its calculation based on? Options: A. chemical reactions B. microscopic inspection C. change in temperature D. measured energy changes Answer:
D
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Question: What do you call a group of cells of the same kind that performs the same function? Options: A. nucleus B. organ system C. tissue D. molecule Answer:
C
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Question: Featuring a stalk-like filament that ends in an anther, what is the male reproductive organ in a flower? Options: A. petals B. cones C. angiosperms D. stamen Answer:
D
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Question: What causes continents to drift closer to the poles or the equator? Options: A. earthquakes B. time C. plate tectonics D. plate movements Answer:
D
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Question: What is continuously changing within a circuit in an analog signal? Options: A. energy B. voltage C. frequency D. amplitude Answer:
B
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Question: During strenuous exercise our muscles perform what kind of fermentation? Options: A. residual acid B. excessive acid C. lactic acid D. nitric acid Answer:
C
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Question: Where do most cnidarians live? Options: A. hills B. rocks C. ocean D. grass Answer:
C
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Question: Which two systems together provide support to the body and allow for movement? Options: A. skeletal and muscular B. skeletal and digestive C. vascular and muscular D. muscular and nervous Answer:
A
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Question: What mineral is stored and is maintained at normal levels in blood by the skeletal system? Options: A. magnesium B. potassium C. selenium D. calcium Answer:
D
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Question: What is the amorphous form of carbon prepared by the incomplete combustion of natural gas? Options: A. dioxide black B. liquid black C. carbon black D. dark black Answer:
C
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Question: A chain of what structures form as an oceanic plate moves over a hotspot? Options: A. outcrops B. volcanoes C. earthquakes D. ridges Answer:
B
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Question: The basic voltaic cell variations are the dry cell and the what? Options: A. lead flood battery B. lead storage battery C. lead electricity battery D. positive terminal Answer:
B
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Question: Most tissues regulated by the autonomic nervous system receive both sympathetic and parasympathetic input from? Options: A. parasympathetic neurons B. peristaltic neurons C. postganglionic neurons D. Chemosensory center Answer:
C
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Question: What make us sick when they become human parasites? Options: A. larvae B. viruses C. detritus D. protozoa Answer:
D
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Question: What is the term for the early growth and development of a plant embryo inside a seed? Options: A. rumination B. fertilization C. germination D. secretion Answer:
C
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Question: What type of cell division produces gametes? Options: A. mitosis B. meiosis C. mutations D. apoptosis Answer:
B
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Question: Calculations are described showing conversions between molar mass and what for gases? Options: A. volume B. weight C. length D. density Answer:
D
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Question: The two parameters used to measure changes in ecosystems are resistance and what related factor? Options: A. strength B. variation C. acceptability D. resilience Answer:
D
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Question: What is the name of the life stage when a child becomes sexually mature? Options: A. maturity B. adolescence C. adulthood D. puberty Answer:
D
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Question: When a warm air mass becomes trapped between two cold air masses, what type of front occurs? Options: A. stationary front B. obscured front C. storm front D. occluded front Answer:
D
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Question: Diamond, graphite and fullerene are examples of what form of carbon? Options: A. zirconia B. magnesium C. crystalline D. faceted Answer:
C
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Question: The reaction of calcium oxide with carbon dioxide forms what? Options: A. nitrogen B. calcium carbonate C. carbon monoxide D. nitrogen carbonate Answer:
B
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Question: What causes lightning during a thunderstorm? Options: A. difference in temperature B. difference in charge C. difference in wind D. difference in elevation Answer:
B
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Question: Blood from the body enters what chamber of the heart before it is pumped to the right ventricle and then to the lungs? Options: A. left bivalve B. right atrium C. left ventricle D. left atrium Answer:
B
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Question: What is necessary for new alleles to be created? Options: A. new rna B. new frequencies C. cross-pollination D. new mutations Answer:
D
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Question: What is the smallest particle of an element that still has the element’s properties? Options: A. a nucleus B. an electron C. an ion D. an atom Answer:
D
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Question: Further transformation occurs during organogenesis, the formation of what? Options: A. muscles B. organs C. bones D. arteries Answer:
B
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Question: Like a blanket on a sleeping person, greenhouse gases act as what for the planet? Options: A. plastic B. Exterior Coverings C. insulation D. ventilation Answer:
C
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Question: The mouth, stomach, esophagus, small intestine, and large intestine are all part of what organ system? Options: A. muscular B. digestive C. respiratory D. lymphatic Answer:
B
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Question: Exemplified by rusty iron, what process is defined as the disintegration of a material due to chemical reactions with other substances in the environment? Options: A. extraction B. corrosion C. magnesium D. Metal Breakdown Answer:
B
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Question: Like the stem, what basic plant structure contains vascular bundles composed of xylem and phloem? Options: A. flower B. root C. leaf D. bark Answer:
C
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Question: What kind of weathering is abrasion? Options: A. molecular B. electromagnetic C. natural D. mechanical Answer:
D
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Question: What enthalpy change is observed in an exothermic reaction? Options: A. negative B. entropy C. no change D. positive Answer:
A
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Question: What physical process occurs when large chunks of food are broken down into smaller pieces? Options: A. swallowing B. mechanical digestion C. chemical digestion D. peristalsis Answer:
B
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Question: In which stage does the chromatin condense into chromosomes? Options: A. Telophase II B. prophase ii C. Metaphase I D. Anaphase I Answer:
B
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Question: Making associations between experiences is often a part of what activity? Options: A. eating B. sleeping C. learning D. dying Answer:
C
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Question: But a point mutation can also change a codon for an amino acid into a what? Options: A. stop codon B. axon C. exon D. stop mutation Answer:
A
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Question: What process creates sperm? Options: A. genesis B. hypothalamus C. altostratus D. spermatogensis Answer:
D
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Question: Which layer is the lithosphere located? Options: A. outermost layer B. radii layer C. nearest layer D. eclipses layer Answer:
A
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Question: Radioactive atoms, nuclear explosions, and stars produce what types of rays. Options: A. beta B. gamma C. plasma D. neutron Answer:
B
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Question: What hypothesis states that the biosphere is its own living organism Options: A. the seager hypothesis B. small world theory C. the gaia hypothesis D. Big Bang theory Answer:
C
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Question: What occurs when two wave crests overlap? Options: A. constructive overlap B. constructive dissonance C. constructive interference D. forth interference Answer:
C
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Question: What begins when a neuron receives a chemical stimulus? Options: A. a metabolism impulse B. nerve reaction C. a nerve impulse D. a induce impulse Answer:
C
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Question: What living things are considered photoautotrophs because they use sunlight and carbon from carbon dioxide to synthesize chemical energy in the form of carbohydrates? Options: A. moulds B. protazoa C. plants D. bacteria Answer:
C
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Question: The four phases of mitosis are prophase, metaphase, anaphase and what? Options: A. spirogyra B. trichina C. telophase D. postphase Answer:
C
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Question: What helps an insectivorous plant attract and digest insects? Options: A. specialized leaves B. special seeds C. specialized flowers D. spines Answer:
A