Answer the following question given this paragraph: The water Americans get from their faucets is safe. This water has been treated and purified. At least 20% of the world's people do not have clean drinking water always available. That's more than 1 billion people. They must drink water from where they can get it. Maybe straight from a river or pond ( Figure below ). Human wastes may be in the water. If that's the case, the water will probably contain pathogens. Pathogens are organisms that cause diseases. Q: At least 20 percent of the world's people do not have a ready supply of what? Choices: - clothing - food - oil - clean drinking water A:
clean drinking water
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Answer the following question given this paragraph: Today, we known that characteristics of organisms are controlled by genes on chromosomes (see Figure below ). The position of a gene on a chromosome is called its locus . In sexually reproducing organisms, each individual has two copies of the same gene, as there are two versions of the same chromosome ( homologous chromosomes ). One copy comes from each parent. The gene for a characteristic may have different versions, but the different versions are always at the same locus. The different versions are called alleles . For example, in pea plants, there is a purple-flower allele ( B ) and a white-flower allele ( b ). Different alleles account for much of the variation in the characteristics of organisms. Q: Locus refers to the position of what on a chromosome, which controls the characteristics of an organism? Choices: - genome - gamete - rna - gene A:
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gene
Ques: Answer the following question given this paragraph: Sexual reproduction also occurs in virtually all fungi. This involves mating between two haploid hyphae. During mating, two haploid parent cells fuse, forming a diploid spore called a zygospore . The zygospore is genetically different from the parents. After the zygospore germinates, it can undergo meiosis, forming haploid cells that develop into new hyphae. Q: What type of reproduction occurs in almost all fungi? Choices: - fragmentation - budding - asexual - sexual A:
Ans: sexual
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Answer the following question given this paragraph: The cell membrane consists of two adjacent layers of phospholipids. The lipid tails of one layer face the lipid tails of the other layer, meeting at the interface of the two layers. The phospholipid heads face outward, one layer exposed to the interior of the cell and one layer exposed to the exterior (Figure 3.3). Because the phosphate groups are polar and hydrophilic, they are attracted to water in the intracellular fluid. Intracellular fluid (ICF) is the fluid interior of the cell. The phosphate groups are also attracted to the extracellular fluid. Extracellular fluid (ECF) is the fluid environment outside the enclosure of the cell membrane. Interstitial fluid (IF) is the term given to extracellular fluid not contained within blood vessels. Because the lipid tails are hydrophobic, they meet in the inner region of the membrane, excluding watery intracellular and extracellular fluid from this space. The cell membrane has many proteins, as well as other lipids (such as cholesterol), that are associated with the phospholipid bilayer. An important feature of the membrane is that it remains fluid; the lipids and proteins in the cell membrane are not rigidly locked in place. Q: The cell membrane consists of two adjacent layers of what? Choices: - lecithin - membranes - eukaryotes - phospholipids A:
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phospholipids
Ques:Answer the following question given this paragraph: Refracting and reflecting telescopes are optical telescopes that use lenses to gather light. Q: Refracting and reflecting telescopes are optical telescopes that use lenses to gather what? Choices: - electricity - magnetic force - sound - light A:

Ans:light
Ques: Answer the following question given this paragraph: The general term peptide refers to an amino acid chain of unspecified length. However, chains of about 50 amino acids or more are usually called proteins or polypeptides. In its physiologically active form, a protein may be composed of one or more polypeptide chains. For peptides and proteins to be physiologically active, it is not enough that they incorporate certain amounts of specific amino acids. The order, or sequence, in which the amino acids are connected is also of critical importance. Bradykinin is a nine-amino acid peptide produced in the blood that has the following amino acid sequence: arg-pro-pro-gly-phe-ser-pro-phe-arg This peptide lowers blood pressure, stimulates smooth muscle tissue, increases capillary permeability, and causes pain. When the order of amino acids in bradykinin is reversed, arg-phe-pro-ser-phe-gly-pro-pro-arg the peptide resulting from this synthesis shows none of the activity of bradykinin. Saylor URL: http://www. saylor. org/books. Q: The general term peptide refers to an amino acid chain of what? Choices: - large length - incomplete length - small length - unspecified length A:
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unspecified length