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The system of naming each organism with a genus and a species name was developed by
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In the name Homo sapiens, "Homo" is the
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Mushrooms belong to the kingdom
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In a food chain, the organisms that make their own food are the
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Organisms that break down dead matter and return nutrients to the soil are
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Digested food is absorbed into the blood mainly through the
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Water and minerals move up a plant through the
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Gases enter and leave a leaf mainly through the
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Choosing the best animals to breed from, generation after generation, is
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A crop variety bred to resist a disease mainly helps farmers by
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Which statement belongs to the cell theory?
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The double-helix model of DNA was proposed in 1953 by
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The life cycle of a butterfly is
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The grain weevil is a pest because it
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About what percentage of the energy at one trophic level passes to the next?
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Sleeping sickness is carried by the
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Bilharzia (schistosomiasis) is spread through
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Cholera is caused by the bacterium
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River blindness (onchocerciasis) is spread by the
Question 20 of 50
Which enzyme starts the digestion of protein in the stomach?
Question 21 of 50
Bile helps digestion by
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The pulmonary artery carries
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Mammals have a double circulation, meaning blood passes through the heart
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The movement of sugars through the phloem is
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Transpiration happens faster when the air is
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Mosses are anchored to the ground by
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In ferns, spores are produced in clusters called sori on the
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Mosses grow mainly in damp places because
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Crossing two different varieties to combine their good qualities is
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Active transport differs from diffusion because it
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The making of messenger RNA (mRNA) from a DNA template is
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In RNA, the base that replaces thymine is
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A group of three bases on mRNA that codes for one amino acid is a
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The housefly spreads diseases such as typhoid by
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In a honeybee colony, the sterile females that collect nectar and care for the young are the
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Euglena is difficult to classify because it
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Malaria parasites multiply in the human
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Viruses are considered non-living outside a host because they
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The function of the hydrochloric acid in the stomach is to
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Stomata usually close at night because
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Translocation in the phloem moves mainly
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Ferns are more advanced than mosses because they have
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Root hair cells absorb mineral ions from dilute soil solution by
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Increasing the surface area to volume ratio of a cell
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The process by which DNA makes an exact copy of itself is
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A pyramid of biomass may be inverted in
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Blood leaving the small intestine travels to the liver through the
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Polyploidy in crops such as wheat often results in
Question 49 of 50
A DNA strand has the base sequence ATG CCA. The complementary mRNA is
Question 50 of 50
If 30% of the bases in a DNA molecule are adenine, the percentage of guanine is
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