Answer the following question given this paragraph: Harmful bacteria can enter your digestive system in food and make you sick. This is called foodborne illness or food poisoning. The bacteria, or the toxins they produce, may cause vomiting or cramping, in addition to the symptoms mentioned above. Foodborne illnesses can also be caused by viruses and parasites. The most common foodborne illnesses happen within a few minutes to a few hours, and make you feel really sick, but last for only about a day or so. Others can take longer for the illness to appear. Some people believe that the taste of food will tell you if it is bad. As a rule, you probably should not eat bad tasting food, but many contaminated foods can still taste good. Q: What is another term for foodborne illness? Choices: - pathogen - disease - cancer - food poisoning A:
food poisoning
Answer the following question given this paragraph: Saturated hydrocarbons are given the general name of alkanes. The name of specific alkanes always ends in ane and has a prefix to indicate how many carbon atoms it has. Q: Saturated hydrocarbons are given the general name of what? Choices: - enzymes - carbohydrates - lipids - alkanes A:
alkanes
Q: Answer the following question given this paragraph: Osteoblasts make new bone cells and secrete collagen that mineralizes to become bone matrix. They are responsible for bone growth and the uptake of minerals from the blood. Q: What do osteoblasts secrete that mineralizes to become bone matrix? Choices: - spongin - calcium - carbon - collagen A:
A: collagen
Question: Answer the following question given this paragraph: Christopher Auyeung. Gas particles move randomly in all directions . CC BY-NC 3.0. Q: Gas particles can move randomly in what directions? Choices: - one direction - few directions - some directions - all directions A:
Answer: all directions
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Answer the following question given this paragraph: Some echinoderms can reproduce asexually by fission, but most echinoderms reproduce sexually. They generally have separate sexes and external fertilization. Eggs hatch into free-swimming larvae. The larvae undergo metamorphosis to change into the adult form. During metamorphosis, their bilateral symmetry changes to radial symmetry. Q: How do most echinoderms reproduce? Choices: - asexually - flowering - grafting - sexually A:
**Answer**
sexually
Answer the following question given this paragraph: Figure 7.8 Following meiosis, each gamete has one copy of each chromosome. Nondisjunction occurs when homologous chromosomes (meiosis I) or sister chromatids (meiosis II) fail to separate during meiosis. Q: Each gamete will have one copy of each chromosome following which process involving cell division? Choices: - osmosis - genomes - mutations - meiosis A:
meiosis