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- # this is a comment is a Q&A file
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- .Terran Biology
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- #This first number is the number of questions:
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- 40
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- #now are the questions
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- #1
- M:2 3
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- What is the science of Biology?
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- 1. the study of animals.
- 2. a challenge to understand life.
- 3. the study of evolution.
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- #2
- M:4 4
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- How many cells make up the human body?
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- 1. 100,000 ( 1x10e5 ).
- 2. 100,000,000 ( 1x10e8 ).
- 3. 100,000,000,000 ( 1x10e11 ).
- 4. 100,000,000,000,000 ( 1x10e14 ).
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- #3
- M:1 3
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- What is the most important crop in Asia
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- 1. rice.
- 2. cabbage.
- 3. wheat.
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- #4
- T:Darwin
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- Who first conceived the theory of
- evolution based on the concept of
- natural selection(survival of the
- fittest)?
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- #5
- M:3 5
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- How old is the universe?
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- 1. 2000 years old.
- 2. one hundred million years old.
- 3. 15 billion years old.
- 4. 1 trillion years old.
- 5. 1 quadrillion years old.
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- #6
- M:2 4
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- About how many galaxies are there in
- the universe?
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- 1. about 20.
- 2. over 1x10e9 (over 1 billion).
- 3. over 1000.
- 4. no one has any idea at all.
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- #7
- M:4 4
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- What is/are the basic building blocks
- of the atom?
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- 1. protons.
- 2. electrons.
- 3. neutrons.
- 4. all of the above.
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- #8
- M:3 3
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- What is the smallest atom?
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- 1. oxygen.
- 2. nitrogen.
- 3. hydrogen.
- 4. helium.
- 5. neon.
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- #9
- Y:Y
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- Are proteins really just a long string
- of Amino acids?
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- #10
- M:3 3
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- How many protons are there in a water
- molecule (H20)?
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- 1. (1 x 2) + 14 = 16 protons.
- 2. (2 x 2) + 13 = 17 protons.
- 3. (1 x 2) + 16 = 18 protons.
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- #11
- M:3 4
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- What's the diameter of a hydrogen atom?
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- 1. one micrometer (0.000001 meters).
- 2. one millimeter (0.001 meters).
- 3. one nanometer (0.000000001 meters).
- 4. about that diameter of a human hair.
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- #12
- M:1 3
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- What famous molecule contains the
- 'blueprint' of life?
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- 1. DNA.
- 2. glucose.
- 3. fructose.
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- #13
- M:2 4
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- How old is the planet earth?
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- 1. 25 million years old.
- 2. about 5.5 billion years old.
- 3. 25 billion years old.
- 4. no one really knows for sure.
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- #14
- M:4 5
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- How many years ago did life first form?
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- 1. 5000 years.
- 2. 50,000 years.
- 3. 50 million years.
- 4. 3.5 billion years.
- 5. 10 billion years.
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- #15
- M:2 4
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- How long did bacteria live on the
- Earth before other life evolved?
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- 1. 100 million years.
- 2. 2 billion years.
- 3. 3 billion years.
- 4. other life came along right away.
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- #16
- M:2 3
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- Some single-celled organisms have
- 'cilia' (hair-like stuff that grows
- on the outside of the cell).
- What is the purpose of cilia?
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- 1. to fend off predators.
- 2. to move it around (like legs).
- 3. to catch food.
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- #17
- M:2 3
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- Where is the DNA in a cell?
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- 1. inside the ribosomes.
- 2. inside the nucleus.
- 3. floating in the cell membrane.
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- #18
- Y:Y
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- Are plant cells much different than
- animal cells?
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- #19
- M:2 4
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- Human DNA is broken into smaller
- units called:
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- 1. ribosomes.
- 2. chromosomes.
- 3. RNA.
- 4. Chloroplasts.
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- #20
- Y:N
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- Is water free to enter and leave a
- cell through the cell membrane any
- time it wants?
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- #21
- M:1 4
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- What is Energy?
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- 1. the capacity to do work.
- 2. heat only.
- 3. extra atoms.
- 4. light only.
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- #22
- M:2 3
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- What is kinetic energy?
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- 1. stored energy.
- 2. the energy of motion.
- 3. both of these.
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- #23
- M:1 3
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- What is potential energy?
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- 1. stored energy.
- 2. the energy of motion.
- 3. both of these.
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- #24
- M:4 4
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- where does most of the earth's energy
- come from?
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- 1. oil.
- 2. the ocean.
- 3. the wind.
- 4. the sun.
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- #25
- Y:Y
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- Can energy be created or destroyed?
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- #26
- T:heat
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- What's the least useful form of energy?
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-
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- #27
- M:2 3
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- What's the most famous energy molecule?
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- 1. deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
- 2. adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
- 3. glucose.
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- #28
- M:3 4
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- What type of organism uses light energy
- more than any other?
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- 1. mammals.
- 2. fungi.
- 3. plants.
- 4. bacteria.
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- #29
- M:3 3
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- How do most plants make ATP for energy?
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- 1. decarboxylation.
- 2. oxidation.
- 3. photosynthesis.
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- #30
- M:2 4
- <
- Light is just a visible wavelength of
- the same waves that make up
- radio waves and X-rays. What is the
- range of wavelengths for visible
- light?
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- 1. 0.001 nanometers to 1 nanometer.
- 2. 380 nanometers to 750 nanometers.
- 3. 1000 nanometers to 0.01 centimeters.
- 4. 0.01 centimeters to 100 meters.
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- #31
- M:1 3
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- Oxygen has been created over the last
- 3.5 billion years through the process of
- photosynthesis. What percent of the air
- is now oxygen?
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- 1. 20%
- 2. 99%
- 3. 100%
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- #32
- M:3 3
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- What is light?
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- 1. an electron in a very excited state.
- 2. a fast moving neutron particle.
- 3. a zero mass particle called a photon.
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- #33
- M:1 5
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- Genes are the blocks that make up
- chromosomes. What does a gene do?
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- 1. genes are a blueprint of your body.
- 2. genes tell a cell how to divide.
- 3. genes are what cells eat.
- 4. genes are part of the cell membrane.
- 5. makes a nice buttock.
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- #34
- M:4 4
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- How many type of chromosomes do all
- humans have?
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- 1. 12,000.
- 2. 1000.
- 3. 23.
- 4. 46.
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- #35
- M:1 3
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- Down syndrome is a disease that occurs
- in one of every how many children?
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- 1. 750.
- 2. 7500.
- 3. 75,000.
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- #36
- M:2 4
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- An albino is a person who is born
- without the pigment called melanin.
- One of every how many children is born
- an albino?
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- 1. 100.
- 2. 17,000.
- 3. 100,000.
- 4. about 1 million.
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- #37
- Y:Y
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- Chromosomes are extremely important
- parts of our bodies. Having an extra
- one or missing one is often fatal.
- Can tests be done on babies before
- they are born to determine whether
- they have an extra or missing
- chromosome?
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- #38
- M:4 4
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- If you stretched all the DNA in a single
- human cell out end to end it would be about
- 6 feet long. If you took all the DNA in
- a person's body and stretched it end to
- end it would be how long?
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- 1. about 10 miles of DNA.
- 2. about 1 million miles of DNA.
- 3. about 100 million miles of DNA.
- 4 over 100 billion miles of DNA.
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- #39
- Y:Y
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- Cancer is caused when a normal cell
- can not STOP reproducing. A bunch of
- cancer cells are called a tumor which
- grows larger and larger over time. Can
- cancer be removed from the body?
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- #40
- Y:Y
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- Genetic mutation occurs when genes are
- cut from chromosomes and placed in
- other chromosomes. Does this technology
- mean we can alter the appearance of
- people, plants or animals?
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