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| Why are more antibiotics giben to healthy farm animals in the state of North Carolina each year than to all of the sick people in the USA? |
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| so the annimals grow faster |
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| The imported honey bee uses what stradegy for competing? |
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| Generalist foraging behavior |
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| From our recent discussion papers, the scientific advice for prostate, breast and cervical cancer screening has recently changed due to |
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| more clinical trial results becoming available. |
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| The recent discussion papers reported on recent research findings that suggest |
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| screening for prostate cancer does not save lives |
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| impotence and/or incontinence |
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| do not lead to a reduced death rate from breast cancer. |
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| Scientists who study ancient life are known as |
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| Which would least likely become fossilized? |
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| An invertabrate on the sea floor |
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| Which of the following people are at the lowest risk of acquiring MRSA? |
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| A computer consultant who works from home. |
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| If the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus fails to form properly, water will |
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| When extreme phenotypes are selected against, which pattern of natural selection is at work? |
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| what is a key stone species? |
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| negative impact on ecosystem if species was gone |
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| All of the following will help reduce the spread of drug-resistant bacteria EXCEPT |
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| taking a strong antibiotic at the first sign of illness |
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| What are the two major mechanisms by which bacterial populations generate genetic diversisty? |
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| gene exchange (=horizontal gene transfer) and mutation |
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| Which of the following features of Tiktaalik is NOT shared with other bony fishes? |
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| Which of the following is most likely to leave a fossil? |
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| The "GO" sign in the figure directly above represents _____ and the "STOP" signs represent ______. |
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| proto- oncogenes and proteins; tumor suppressor genes and proteins |
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| Of the follwing traits that are associated with being human, ch evolved most recently? |
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| All of the following are TRUE of natural selection EXCEPT |
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| A mutation that is advantageous to an individual will be advantageous to all individuals in all environments. |
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| which of the following would help darker-skinned people who live in low-UV environments (e.g., northern Siberia) remain healthy? |
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| vitamin D supplementation |
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| Race, if defined by a person's skin tone, provides info about |
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| Human population is growing.... |
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| It would be expected that a population geographically located where UVB exposure is maximal to have a skin tone that is |
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| What is a transgenic organism? |
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| An organism that contains genes from a different species |
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| Modern humans and present day apes shared a common ancestor |
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| a drug-resistant form of Staphylococcus aureus |
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| In the figure immediately above, "U" refers to |
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| the common ancestor of chimps and humans which existed ~6 mya |
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| The BMI is an estimate of _______ based on height and weight |
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| The figure directly above indicates (pic of the world with skulls on it) |
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| Modern Homo Sapiens migration out of Africa |
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| The figure directly above |
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| In the figure directly above, "time's arrow" points |
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| "Descent with modification" and "The change in the frequency of allels in a population over time" are definitions for |
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| What is the function of antithrombin? |
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| It's a protein that helps to prevent blood clots |
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| The physical attributes of an organism |
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| The term "survival of the fittest" refers to |
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| the strongest surviving and reproducing in an environment. |
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| The coding sequence of a gene is the portion of the DNA that |
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| Specifies the shape and function of a protein |
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| Transcription occures in a eukaryotic cell's ___, and it uses ____ to produce ____. |
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| Insulin is morrmally produced in the _____ but type 1 diabetics now get theirs from transgenic ____. |
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| When cancer has spread to many areas of the body, the most common form of treatment is |
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| chemotherapy drugs injected into the bloodstream |
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| Side effects of chemothereapy, such as vomiting, hair loss, and bruising occur because |
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| chemotherapeutic drugs kill normal and cancerous cells. |
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| What country has the highest reserves of oil in the world |
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| The specific therapy utilized to treat the disease discussed in this article was |
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| The type of cell that was genetically modified to attack diseased (and normal) cells is called a |
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| Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
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| If you wanted to change your lifestyle to reduce your risk of developing cancer, which of the following behaviors would be important? |
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| Your pet mouse has developed colon cancer. Which of the following treatments will likely be most effective? |
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| The differrence between two alleles of a gene is best ascertained by |
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| examining the nucleotide sequence of each allele. |
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| The upper most row (of the four rows present in the figure directly above) represents |
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| Which of the following stem cell types has the ability to differenctioate into the largest number of different cell types? |
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| What are the two measurements used to calculate a person's Body Mass Index? |
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| Comparative research into average portion size between restaurants in Philadelphia and Paris concluded that they were |
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| 25% larger in Philadelphia |
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| Our bodies are designed for long term energy stoarage of |
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| triglycerides in fat cells |
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| Which of the following lists foods in order from least healthful to most healthful? |
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| What by product of photosynthesis is required for respiration? |
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| light energy is found in units called |
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| what is the carbon source used in photosynthesis? |
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| Photosynthesis converts the energy of sunlight into which end product? |
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| The article that you read for yesterday's discussion is specifically about |
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| The principle that energy is neither created nor destroyed, it simply changes form, is referred to as |
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| the law of conservation of energy |
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| Animal movement requires a conversion of energy from |
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| chemical to kinetic energy |
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| The energy in our food is contained within |
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| the chemical bonds linking molecular subunits |
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| What country ahas the highest reserves of coal in the world? |
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| Where are the most reliable scientific results published? |
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| In peer reviewed media sources |
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| The correct number code for the STR repeats in the top individual (in the figure directly above) is _____ while the correct number code for the STR repeats in the bottom individual is _____ . |
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| At the G1 checkpoint, cells pause to |
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| wait until there is a need for them to divide |
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| What is the most used fuel source in the US? |
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| In a scientific study evaluationg the beneficial effects of caffeine on the elderly, what would be the subjects to test? |
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| Which photon wavelength contains the greatest amount of energy? |
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| Proteins that move large or hydrophilic molecules across a cell membrane are called ______ proteins. |
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| Which of the following play a factor in misrepresentation of research data in the media? |
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| Which STR will have migrated farthest through an electrophoresis gel? |
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| The step in DNA profiling illustrated above is called |
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| polymerase chain reaction |
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| lowering activation energy |
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| Structure "C" illustrated in the light colored rectangle in the figure above is a |
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| The bottom DNA fragment in the marker lane (M).... |
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| In the process of digestion, proteins are broken down into ______, while carbohydrates are broken down ninto _____. |
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| amino acids; simple sugars |
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| Which of the following statements best distinguishes hypotheses from theories in science? |
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| Hypotheses are testable and falsifiable explanations for a scientific observation or question; theoris are scientific hypotheseis that have never been disproved, even after many years of rigorous testing. |
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| Under electrophoretic gel conditions (pH ~.5-8.5), DNA has_____ |
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| a negative charge due to its phosphate groups |
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| The set of paired chromosomes illustrated in the light colored square in the figure above is called |
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| The info provided in the light colored square in the figure for question #30 indicates taht these chromosomes come from a |
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| Fats are important components of which cellular structure? |
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| If a paper published in a scientific journal stated that drinking coffee cause Parkinson's diseas. This statement would most accurately be described as a ____ |
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| In the studies of coffee and memory discussed, the imdependent variable was ______ and the dependent variable was _______. |
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| The two major components of cell membranes are |
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| phospholipids and protiens |
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| Why is vitamin C important for bone health? |
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| It is a coenzyme for the enzymes in bone cells that help build bone. |
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| Studies invving the benefits or risks of drinking coffee may be obscured by |
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| Why do some media reports about scientific discoveries end up being exaggerations? |
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| A link between two factors, such as between caffeine use and rate of Parkinson''s disease is |
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| ______ Reactions break down food and release subunits that can be used in ______ reactions to make larger macromolecules |
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| Chloroplasts are found in |
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| What were Fleming's observations about organisms on a Petri dish |
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| A mold inhibited the growth of bacterial colonies |
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| According to cell theory, all living organisms are composed of |
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| Grains, including bread, rice, and pasta, are a rich source of |
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| nutrients our body needs in large amounts |
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| All the biochemical reactions in a cell are described as |
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| In the figure directly above, |
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| The graphed results on the left are more likely due to chance thatn the results graphed on the right. |
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| the figure directly above suggests that you should eat |
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| more wheat bread than white bread. |
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