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This renewable energy source generates energy from a natural convection related to the sun.

What is wind energy?

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This intelligent aquatic animal's most recent common ancestor with humans is the flatworm.

What is the octopus?

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This part of the cell is known as the "powerhouse" of the cell.

What is the mitochondria?

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Genes generally have two types: this type and recessive.

What are dominant genes?

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The relation between two interdependent organisms.

What is symbiosis?

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The world's oceans have risen by this much in the last 120 years.

What is 5-8 inches?

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The modern wolf species Canis lupis, or gray wolf, first started appearing this many years ago.

What is 1 million?

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Organisms whose cells have membrane-bound nucleuses are called this.

What are eukaryotes?

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This eye color is the common example for recessive genes.

What are blue eyes?

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The back part of the head or skull.

What is the occiput?

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Deuterium, used in nuclear fusion fuel, is found in this fraction of all seawater hydrogen atoms.

What is 1 in 50?

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This occurs when two or more species evolve and develop similar traits, even if their most recent common ancestor was tens of millions of years ago.

What is convergent evolution?

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The gram-positive wall of a cell is generally this thick.

What is 20-80 nm?

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30% of all people have this blood type.

What is A positive?

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A cell from which bone is derived.

What is an osteoblast?

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Coal burns to make about this much energy (in joules).

What is 30 MJ?

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Humans share this percentage of DNA with honeybees.

What is 44%?

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The gram negative wall of a cell is generally this thick.

What is 5-10 nm?

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This model of genetic inheritance was re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.

What is Mendelian inheritance?

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The study of organisms that metabolize oxalates.

What is oxalotrophy?

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NASA predicts, provided no drastic measures to reduce consumption, that humanity will run out of natural oil reserves by this year.

What is 2070?

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This system classifies species, and it has eight levels: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.

What is the Linnean system?

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The average human body contains about this many cells.

What is 37 trillion?

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Some species in this class of aquatic animals can rewrite their own genetic code to keep their nerves firing in cold water.

What is Cephalopoda?

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The feeling of pins and needles after a limb has fallen asleep.

What is paresthesia?

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