Input: Answer this question:
Which of the following is an example of genetic engineering?
OPTIONS:
- Growing a whole plant from a single cell.
- Finding the sequences of bases in plant DNA.
- Inserting a gene into plants that makes them resistant to insects.
- Attaching the root of one type of plant to the stem of another type of plant.
Answer: Inserting a gene into plants that makes them resistant to insects.

*Question*: Waste Not: Energy from Garbage and Sewage A hundred years ago, gas was collected from rotting sewage and used to light street lamps. New technologies hope to update this concept-tapping garbage as well as human waste-for an energy-hungry world. One promising device is called a microbial fuel cell. It makes electricity much like a hydrogen fuel cell, but it runs off wastewater. Sewage-eating bacteria drive a chemical process that generates current and, as a bonus, helps purify the water. Bruce Logan of Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues have constructed small microbial fuel cells, no bigger than a can that can power various devices, including a small fan. "If you had 100,000 people and you treat their sewage, you could get up to 2.3 megawatts of continuous power, which is enough to supply electricity for 1,500 homes," Logan said. A megawatt is one million watts. A self-sufficient water-treatment device is also something that NASA is interested in. Bruce Rittman of Northwestern University is currently devising a microbial fuel cell that could be used on manned space missions. "You have to recycle everything up in space," Rittman said. "You want to capture food waste and human waste, as well as recycle water." A microbial fuel cell has some advantages over the more traditional method, called an anaerobic digester, which collects the methane, or "biogas," that bacteria belch out when they consume organic material in the absence of oxygen. The methane is later burned to turn a turbine generator. "Instead of going through the intermediate step of combustion, a cell makes the electricity directly," Rittman said. This direct route means that a microbial fuel cell could potentially extract more energy from a given amount of sewage. It also would avoid the pollution that burning methane produces. But both Rittman and Logan are quick to add that cells are still early in development, whereas digesters are in use, mostly in agriculture settings where the concentration of organic material is higher than from urban sewers. What type of energy do microbial fuel cells convert into electrical energy? OPTIONS:
- kinetic energy
- nuclear energy
- chemical energy
- mechanical energy
*Answer*: chemical energy

question:
Why should plants be included in investigations about the water cycle?
OPTIONS:
- Plants speed up the water cycle by removing carbon from the air.
- Plants start the water cycle when they make water in photosynthesis.
- Plants are part of the water cycle through the process of transpiration.
- Plants stop the water cycle because they absorb it and stop the flow to streams.

answer:
Plants are part of the water cycle through the process of transpiration.

[Q]: Which is the best evidence that cell division is occurring constantly in our bodies?
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OPTIONS:
- The body has to keep breathing around the clock.
- Active people often require more food than inactive ones.
- There are many different types of tissues in the human body.
- Human beings shed millions of
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[A]: Human beings shed millions of

question below:
The best evidence that two land areas were once connected is the discovery that both land masses
OPTIONS:
- have the same climate.
- are in the same stage of succession.
- exist along the same line of longitude.
- have similar types of rocks and fossils.
answer below:
have similar types of rocks and fossils.

Which BEST explains why green marine algae are most often restricted to the top 100 meters of the ocean?
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OPTIONS:
- They have no roots to anchor them to the ocean floor.
- They can live only where there is light.
- The pressure is too great for them to survive below 100 meters.
- If the algae lived below 100 meters they would be eaten by animals.
They can live only where there is light.