BIOLOGY
The most common term used in genetics to describe the observable physical characteristics of an organism caused by the expression of a gene or set of genes.
What is a phenotype?
An aqueous solution in which the concentration of OH– ions is greater than that of H+ ions is called a ____ solution.
What is a basic solution?
A hexadecimal number is a numeral system with a radix or a base of _____.
What is 16?
This property of a sound wave is most commonly associated with loudness.
What is amplitude?
The term that describes 2 angles with 90º as the sum of their measurements.
What is complementary?
The biological term most often used for the act of a cell engulfing a particle by extending its pseudopodia around the particle.
What is phagocytosis?
This general type of bonding is found in molecules in which electrons are shared by nuclei.
What is covalent?
The fertilizer potash provides plants with this element necessary for healthy growth and which is also the seventh most abundant element on Earth.
What is Potassium (K)?
The MOST common term for the type of energy that is most directly related to the energy of atoms, molecules and other small particles that are in random motion within a system.
What is thermal energy?
The area, in square feet, of a triangle whose perpendicular height is 20 feet with a base of 12 feet.
What is 120?
The names for the pyrimidine bases found in DNA.
The formula for hydrogen sulfide according to standard chemical nomenclature and indicating the proper charge.
What is H2S?
The number of significant figures in the number 0.00750.
What is 3?
The MOST common term for the inwardly directed force exerted on an object to keep the object moving in a circle.
What is centripetal force?
The prime factorization of 240.
What is 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 5?
The number of embryonic seed leaves a bean seedling has.
What is 2?
The scientific term for the ratio between the density of a given substance to that of water when both are at the same temperature.
What is specific gravity or relative density?
This gas is most directly responsible for the bends or decompression sickness that divers may experience.
What is nitrogen?
The specific law of motion that most directly implies that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's 3rd law?
Giving your answer in standard form, the last term in the binomial expansion of the following: (x + y)^6.
What is y^6?
The genus name of the most thoroughly studied bacterium.
What is Escherichia?
The molecular formula for the conjugate acid of the following Brønsted-Lowry base: SO4^2-
What is HSO4^- ?
The amount of grams of sodium chloride in 2,000 milliliters of 0.9% NaCl solution.
What is 18?
The speed of sound in a certain medium is 360 meters per second, this is the wavelength, in meters, of a sound-wave that has a frequency of 60 hertz?
What is 6?
The location of the derivative of the function f(x) = 2x^2 + 5x – 3 equal to zero.
What is "at x=-5/4"?