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Elephants
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Elephants
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Did you know that elephants can't jump even though they have the same number of bones in their feet as other mammals? |
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The bones in an elephant's foot are more closely packed together than other mammals so they do not have the flexibility or spring mechanisms that would enable them to jump. |
| How many bones are in an elephant's trunk? |
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The elephant's trunk has numerous muscles but NO BONE. | |
| Why do camels have three eyelids? |
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The extra eyelids help keep blowing sand out of the camel's eyes! | |
| What is the name of the immortal cells used in research since the 1950's and from where did the originate? |
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Hela cells from Henrietta Lacks who died from cancer! |
| Which of our body organs is the lightest in the body? |
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The LUNGS!!!! |
| What great apes have a genome that perfectly identifies with 96 percent of the human genome? |
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CHIMPANZEES |
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In what year did the bald eagle become the National Emblem of the United States? |
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1782 |
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What marsupial stores fat in its tail and is named for its scream? |
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Tasmanian Devil |
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What microorganism is an important part of the immune system of our skin? |
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Skin flora or bacteria |
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Eggplant is a member of what plant family? |
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Solanceae! |
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Give an emergent property of the first land plants? | Cooksonia was one of the earliest land plants with a waxy cuticle to prevent desiccation. |
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| Roosters can not crow unless what is true of their posture? |
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Roosters must stretch their neck to crow | |
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What drug was used in 1918 to treat a paralytic disease? Name the drug and the disease. |
L-DOPA for Parkinson's Disease
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| The Chernobyl accident in April 1986 spread radiation hundreds of miles. What autotrophic organism proved useful in detecting the radiation damage to organisms? |
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MOSS OR BRYOPHYTES! |
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Suggest an evolutionary hypothesis for Bergman's Rule about species size at different latitudes? |
Larger size species are found in colder climates! |
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| What native African and West Asian plant has seeds only that are poisonous, killing a human in only 3 - 4 minutes, but is also used medicinally? |
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CASTOR BEAN |
| Cultivated American cotton has 52 chromosomes. How many chromosomes are in wild American cotton? |
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