| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| What is a cowrie? | a marine snail | 50%
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| What are produced in response to foreign substances called antigens? | antibodies | 50%
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| People get sick from eating salmonella, but what is it? | bacteria | 50%
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| What term is given to the emission of light by living organisms such as a fireflies or bacteria? | bioluminescence | 50%
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| What is the largest geographic biotic unit? | biome | 50%
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| What is another name for the so-called sea wasp, which can be extremely dangerous to humans? | box jellyfish | 50%
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| Which animal is a carnivorous scavenger? | hyena | 50%
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| Plankton is the name given to all the organisms in water that exist in a drifting, floating state. What type of plankton is the primary food source, either directly or indirectly, of all sea organisms? | phytoplankton | 50%
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| What is a state of lowered body temperature and depressed metabolic activity that hummingbirds and some insects, reptiles, and mammals enter? | torpor | 50%
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| Which vitamin is water-soluble as opposed to fat-soluble? | vitamin C | 50%
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| How many pairs of chromosomes are found in the human body? | 23 pairs | 0%
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| Which do not reproduce via parthenogenesis (reproduction without fertilization)? | butterflies | 0%
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| What is another name for harvestmen, a group of arachnids that look like spiders but are not? | Harvestmen are also called daddy longlegs. | 0%
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| Which of these crabs is largest? | Tasmanian crab | 0%
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| In which biological laboratory technique are fragments of tissue from an animal or plant transferred to an artificial environment where they can continue to survive and function? | tissue culture | 0%
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