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Question: Many genetic disorders are caused by mutations in one or a few of? Options: A. blood cells B. organs C. lesions D. genes Answer:
D
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Question: Decay of what provides some of earth's internal heat? Options: A. decaying elements B. radioactive elements C. ionic elements D. radioactive compounds Answer:
B
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Question: Where are the terrestrial planets located, in relation to the sun? Options: A. To the right B. closest C. To the left D. farthest Answer:
B
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Question: What is the term for the relationship in which one species benefits while the other species is harmed? Options: A. symbiotic relationship B. combative relationship C. parasitic relationship D. commensal relationship Answer:
A
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Question: On what day of the cycle does ovulation usually occur? Options: A. 14th B. 17th C. 1st D. 7th Answer:
A
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Question: How does the heart transport blood? Options: A. blood vessels B. blood pellets C. nerves D. muscles Answer:
A
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Question: What shape is the colony of a volvox cell? Options: A. coil-shaped B. tubular C. hollow ball shaped D. pyramid Answer:
C
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Question: Unlike plants, animal species rely almost exclusively on what type of reproduction? Options: A. multiplication B. sexual reproduction C. pollination D. regeneration Answer:
B
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Question: Where is gabbro found? Options: A. wetlands B. oceanic crust C. volcanoes D. forest floor Answer:
B
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Question: In photosynthesis, what process involving carbon dioxide and oxygen occurs through small, regulated openings called stomata? Options: A. osmosis B. transpiration C. fertilization D. gas exchange Answer:
D
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Question: What serious sti can damage the heart, brain and other organs or even cause death, if untreated? Options: A. cirrhosis B. chlamydia C. syphilis D. herpes Answer:
C
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Question: What do you call a group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area? Options: A. biosphere B. ecosystem C. population D. system Answer:
C
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Question: The potential of what can be used to measure the ph of a solution? Options: A. galvanic cell B. symbiotic cell C. stimulation cell D. electrodes cell Answer:
A
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Question: Most crustaceans have separate sexes, so they reproduce sexually using what? Options: A. eggs and pod B. pod and eggs C. asexual reproduction D. eggs and sperm Answer:
D
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Question: Which competition leads to one species going extinct or both becoming more specialized? Options: A. intraspecific B. interspecific C. mimicry D. beneficial Answer:
B
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Question: What type of gas are stars made up of? Options: A. hydrogen B. water vapor C. calcium D. freon Answer:
A
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Question: What happens to growth of plants and bacteria in warmer regions? Options: A. they are stunted B. they grow slower C. they grow faster D. they mutate Answer:
C
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Question: Toxic compounds in the environment have the most severe impact on animals that are top-level what? Options: A. vegetarian B. carnivores C. herbivores D. omnivores Answer:
B
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Question: Aquatic producers need nutrients and what dissolved gas, which is more abundant near the surface of water? Options: A. helium B. methane C. oxygen D. nitrogen Answer:
C
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Question: The radioactive gas radon and uv radiation are culprits in different types of what disease? Options: A. cancer B. metabolic disease C. reproductive D. diabetes Answer:
A
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Question: What organs have tiny tubes leading to and from elastic air sacs that improve airflow and oxygen uptake? Options: A. apendix B. lungs C. liver D. ovaries Answer:
B
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Question: What are the pyramid-shaped, paired organs that are connected to the trachea by the right and left bronchi? Options: A. ovaries B. stomachs C. kidneys D. lungs Answer:
D
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Question: What is the name of the cell that results when a sperm nucleus fuses with a egg nucleus? Options: A. a zygote B. a cytoplasm C. a filament D. t cell Answer:
A
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Question: Several neuropeptides, relatively short chains of amino acids, serve as neurotransmitters that operate via metabotropic what? Options: A. membranes B. lipids C. organelles D. receptors Answer:
D
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Question: The distance between the crests of electromagnetic waves is called what? Options: A. wavelength B. trough C. variation D. crest Answer:
A
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Question: What is considered to be the most common intrusive igneous rock? Options: A. basalt B. sandstone C. obsidian D. granite Answer:
D
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Question: The nucleus is comprised primarily of? Options: A. energy B. empty space C. matter D. faith Answer:
B
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Question: Introduction genetics is the study of what? Options: A. heredity B. obesity C. biology D. variability Answer:
A
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Question: How thick is the earth's continental crust, on average? Options: A. 25 kilometers B. 35 kilometers C. 15 kilometers D. 60 kilometers Answer:
B
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Question: Which science is an extension of genetics, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and other biological disciplines? Options: A. ethology B. neurobiology C. microbiology D. chronology Answer:
A
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Question: Blood is pumped from the heart, pushing open which valves? Options: A. thoracic and aortic B. pulmonary and aortic semilunar C. pulmonary and respiratory D. aortic and carotid Answer:
B
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Question: What is the source of most of the energy used? Options: A. the sun B. the Earth C. the Moon D. fossil fuels Answer:
A
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Question: Amines are classified according to the number of carbon atoms bonded directly to what atom? Options: A. nitrogen B. helium C. oxygen D. hydrogen Answer:
A
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Question: What are some uses of chlorine gas? Options: A. cleaning, disinfecting and in swimming pools B. washing hands C. rooting plant cuttings D. fueling airplanes Answer:
A
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Question: A vapor light produces visible light by what process? Options: A. solutes B. electroluminescence C. luminescent D. Solar Energy Answer:
B
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Question: Between meals, when the level of blood glucose drops below a certain point, a signal is sent to what organ saying “make more glucose"? Options: A. brain B. liver C. kidney D. pancreas Answer:
B
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Question: Love canal was an infamous example of what type of pollution? Options: A. Visual Pollution B. industrial waste dumping C. Land Pollution D. thermal pollution Answer:
B
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Question: If only blue light strikes green leaves what happens to it? Options: A. it causes heating B. it is absorbed C. it is reflected D. it causes cooling Answer:
B
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Question: The rate of heat transfer by radiation is largely determined by what? Options: A. color B. scope C. environment D. sound Answer:
A
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Question: What type of particles can a beta particle be? Options: A. anode or positron B. electron or positron C. cytoplasm or positron D. diode or positron Answer:
B
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Question: What changes the chemical composition of a substance and can only occur through a chemical reaction? Options: A. chemical changes B. Oxygen Changes C. mineral changes D. carbon changes Answer:
A
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Question: Different interatomic distances produce different lattice what? Options: A. weights B. surfaces C. energies D. qualities Answer:
C
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Question: When does a caldera form? Options: A. before an eruption B. after a hurricane C. when faults form D. after an eruption Answer:
D
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Question: Bonding in molecules with resonance forms is better described by which theory? Options: A. Pascal's theory B. molecular orbital theory C. Geiger theory D. string theory Answer:
B
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Question: Young eutherians complete their embryonic development within what? Options: A. pollen grains B. spores C. uterus D. ovaries Answer:
C
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Question: Matching donor and recipient blood types is important because different blood types have different types of what? Options: A. coagulants B. charges C. antibodies D. antigens Answer:
C
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Question: Which can cause serious metabolic disorders, too little or too much thyroid hormone in the blood? Options: A. neither B. both C. too much only D. too little only Answer:
B
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Question: What is the term for behaviors that are closely controlled by genes with little or no environmental influence? Options: A. observational behaviors B. innate behaviors C. learned behavior D. reflex behaviors Answer:
B
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Question: What is a factor in determining weight but not mass? Options: A. gravity B. location C. material D. function Answer:
B
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Question: What type of environment is maintained in homeostasis? Options: A. noisy internal B. stable external C. constant internal D. fluid internal Answer:
C
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Question: In ancient egypt gold mines were the property of what? Options: A. city B. prospectors C. state D. people Answer:
C
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Question: At the time of birth, bones of the brain case are separated by what wide areas of fibrous connective tissue, which later become sutures? Options: A. fontanelles B. cerebellum C. sporozoans D. fluctuations Answer:
A
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Question: Which theory helps predict future events in weather? Options: A. future weather theory B. carbon change theory C. expected change theory D. climate change theory Answer:
D
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Question: The majority of salamanders lack what organs, so respiration occurs through the skin or through external gills? Options: A. throats B. lungs C. noses D. mouths Answer:
B
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Question: Respiratory distress syndrome results from insufficient production of what? Options: A. alveoli B. pulmonary surfactant C. lung tissue D. carbon dioxide Answer:
B
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Question: What is the microtubule-organizing center found near the nuclei of animal cells? Options: A. entrosome B. centrosome C. lysosome D. spliceosome Answer:
B
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Question: Telomerase is typically active in germ cells and adult what? Options: A. sex cells B. stem cells C. human growth hormone D. chromosomes Answer:
B
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Question: Which process helps bacteria in the gut break down the remains of the digested food? Options: A. fermentation B. synthesis C. decomposition D. oxidation Answer:
A
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Question: What are the primary producers in terrestrial biomes? Options: A. gases B. animals C. soil D. plants Answer:
D
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Question: The accumulation of what cells begin the development of the vertebral column and thoracic cage? Options: A. semiosis cells B. False cells C. hindbrain cells D. mesenchyme cells Answer:
D
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Question: What is the evolutionary history of a group of related organisms called? Options: A. phylogeny B. lineage C. superfamily D. ancestry Answer:
A
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Question: Destructive interference occurs when two identical waves are superimposed exactly out of phase. a standing wave is one in which two waves superimpose to produce a wave that varies in amplitude but does not do this? Options: A. substrate B. membrane C. reproduce D. propagate Answer:
D
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Question: A man made lake is known as what? Options: A. Lagoon B. resevoirs C. Pond D. Lake Answer:
B
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Question: What occurs when light bumps into tiny particles of matter and spreads out in all directions? Options: A. scattering B. kaleidoscope C. rainbow effect D. darkness Answer:
A
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Question: What type of ecologists work to identify and manipulate the processes that most limit recovery of ecosystems from disturbances? Options: A. conservation ecologists B. quality ecologists C. environmental D. restoration ecologists Answer:
D
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Question: What do fish eggs hatch to form? Options: A. fish eggs hatch to form larvae B. unfertilized eggs C. adolescent fish D. tadpoles Answer:
A
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Question: What term describes how closely packed the particles of matter are? Options: A. range B. space C. mass D. density Answer:
D
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Question: What do you call the carbohydrate formed when two monosaccharides bond together? Options: A. disaccharide B. glucose C. calcite D. hydroxyl Answer:
A
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Question: What term means the percent by mass of each element in a compound? Options: A. percent composition B. calculated composition C. molecular composition D. mass composition Answer:
A
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Question: The large positive free energy change leads to a value that is extremely what? Options: A. complex B. small C. random D. high Answer:
B
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Question: Which fish has a round sucker used to suck the blood of other fish? Options: A. shark B. abalone C. lamprey D. moray Answer:
C
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Question: What is the disease where some alveoli of the lungs fill with fluid? Options: A. pneumonia B. lung cancer C. lyme disease D. leukemia Answer:
A
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Question: Where is the only place an electric charge can be found? Options: A. neuron B. translator C. conductor D. ion Answer:
C
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Question: What is the process of action potentials in myelinated axons jumping between the nodes of ranvier called? Options: A. photoreactive conduction B. saltatory conduction C. saltatory movement D. pinworm conduction Answer:
B
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Question: Animals that eat decomposing organic material, such as dung beetles, make the material available to what organisms that break it down further? Options: A. pathogens B. bacteria C. protozoa D. consumers Answer:
B
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Question: What part of the body do fish use to absorb oxygen? Options: A. tail fin B. gills C. under belly D. dorsal fin Answer:
B
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Question: What are two ways cnidarians are able to reproduce? Options: A. spawning and sexual B. asexually and sexually C. mitosis and meiosis D. internally and externally Answer:
B
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Question: The periodic table is an arrangement of the elements in order of increasing what? Options: A. metallic numbers B. gravity numbers C. negative numbers D. atomic numbers Answer:
D
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Question: Digestion of polysaccharides and disaccharides in the small intestine produces glucose and other? Options: A. monosaccharides B. nitrates C. protein D. fat Answer:
A
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Question: What is the area around the nucleus of an atom where electrons are likely to be, called? Options: A. electron cloud B. electron membrane C. electron pocket D. electron wave Answer:
A
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Question: What basic units are neither created nor destroyed during a chemical change, but are instead rearranged? Options: A. molecules B. Electrons C. atoms D. particles Answer:
C
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Question: The anterior pituitary produces seven different what, each with a special function? Options: A. hormones B. proteins C. neurotransmitters D. enzymes Answer:
A
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Question: Traits may also be controlled by multiple alleles or multiple what? Options: A. eggs B. genes C. lesions D. chromosomes Answer:
B
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Question: What type of organism has many different specialized cells that work together to carry out life processes? Options: A. mutated organism B. single-celled organism C. sequenced organism D. multicellular organism Answer:
D
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Question: What part of the brain is divided from front to back into the left and right hemispheres? Options: A. thalmus B. cerebellum C. cerebrum D. medula oblongata Answer:
C
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Question: Light moving from air into water is bent ___________ the normal? Options: A. more B. less C. Longly D. thinly Answer:
A
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Question: Which process helps provide cleaner water for agriculture? Options: A. purification B. sterilization C. osmosis D. process of desalinization Answer:
D
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Question: The reproductive tissues of male and female humans develop similarly in utero until a low level of the hormone testosterone is released from male what? Options: A. bladder B. liver C. kidneys D. gonads Answer:
D
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Question: What force pulls objects toward the center of the earth? Options: A. centrifugal force B. gravity C. momentum D. kinetic energy Answer:
B
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Question: Layers of what create a volcano? Options: A. limestone B. lava C. crust D. rock Answer:
B
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Question: What do tadpoles clear out of waterways? Options: A. algae B. oxygen C. pollution D. disease Answer:
A
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Question: Almost all plants make food through what process? Options: A. evolution B. photosynthesis C. hydrolysis D. glycolysis Answer:
B
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Question: What term means the abnormal or excessive extension of a joint - particularly a hinged joint - beyond its normal range of motion, thus resulting in injury? Options: A. sprain B. hypercorrection C. tear D. hyperextension Answer:
D
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Question: What can be used to accelerate the rate at which chemical reactions occur? Options: A. protein B. components C. hormones D. enzymes Answer:
D
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Question: What is the term for the process of turning sunlight's energy into food? Options: A. glycolysis B. light compression C. photosynthesis D. atherosclerosis Answer:
C
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Question: Light travels more quickly in air than what? Options: A. earth B. glass C. water D. metal Answer:
C
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Question: The voltages generated at a power plant are stepped up by what passive devices, which then reduce voltage to a safe level at the point of use? Options: A. capacitors B. batteries C. transformers D. transistors Answer:
C
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Question: The oxygen regions of the water molecules have what kind of charge? Options: A. neutral B. certain C. negative D. positive Answer:
C
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Question: Prokaryotes and the nitrogen cycle nitrogen is a very important element for life because it is part of proteins and this? Options: A. nuclear forces B. molecules C. nucleic acids D. nerve cells Answer:
C
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Question: The hemolymph and body cells exchange chemicals within what body part? Options: A. the gums B. the sinuses C. the lungs D. the heart Answer:
B