Question: Q: Introduction genetics is the study of what? Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers: Introduction Genetics is the study of heredity. Johann Gregor Mendel set the framework for genetics long before chromosomes or genes had been identified, at a time when meiosis was not well understood. Mendel selected a simple biological system and conducted methodical, quantitative analyses using large sample sizes. Because of Mendel's work, the fundamental principles of heredity were revealed. We now know that genes, carried on chromosomes, are the basic functional units of heredity with the ability to be replicated, expressed, or mutated. Today, the postulates put forth by Mendel form the basis of classical, or Mendelian, genetics. Not all genes are transmitted from parents to offspring according to Mendelian genetics, but Mendel's experiments serve as an excellent starting point for thinking about inheritance. Choices: - biology - variability - obesity - heredity A:
Answer: heredity

Question: Q: What is a hole that is dug or drilled through the ground down to an aquifer called? Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers: Most groundwater does not flow out of an aquifer as a spring or geyser. So to use the water that's stored in an aquifer, people must go after it. How? They dig a well. A well ( Figure below ) is a hole that is dug or drilled through the ground down to an aquifer. Choices: - moat - ditch - canal - well A:
Answer: well

Question: Q: Gain or loss of what causes an atom to become a negatively or positively charged ion? Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers: The girl pictured above became negatively charged because electrons flowed from the van de Graaff generator to her. Whenever electrons are transferred between objects, neutral matter becomes charged. This occurs even with individual atoms. Atoms are neutral in electric charge because they have the same number of negative electrons as positive protons. However, if atoms lose or gain electrons, they become charged particles called ions. You can see how this happens in the Figure below . When an atom loses electrons, it becomes a positively charged ion, or cation. When an atom gains electrons, it becomes a negative charged ion, or anion. Choices: - protons - neutrons - nucleus - electrons A:
Answer:
electrons