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Which adaptations does an animal need to survive in the desert?

• To store water

• To avoid sunlight

• Live deep underground

• All of the above

Which adaptation allows sharks to take in water through their mouths and pass it through an organ that let's them absorb oxygen into their blood/ let's them breath under water?

• Eyes

• Scales

• Gills

• Fins

The ability of a Stone flounder are fish to hide from predators and prey by blending in with the gravel and

sand at the bottom of the ocean is known as —

• natural selection

• camouflage

• mimicry

• hibernation

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What purpose does the xylem in a plant serve?

• Transportation of food and nutrients

• Transportation of water and nutrients

• Anchors the plant to the ground

• Transforms energy through photosynthesis

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The human body system that is most like the cell wall is the...

• Nervous

• Respiratory

• Integumentary

• Skeletal

according to cell theory, all cells...

• come from other cells

• have a nucleus

• carry out meiosis

• contain chloroplasts

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which of the following best defines heredity?

• the passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next generation

• the study of the genetic instruction that are passed from parent to offspring

• the specific sequence of DNA and RNA that code for specific traits

• the process of creating more organisms of a species

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an organism inherits its genetic instructions from the-

• organism's offspring

• organism's parents

• organism's mating partner

• organism's prey

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which cell components are responsible for the inherited traits that a pea plant posses?

• chromosomes, mitochondria, vacuoles

• DNA, nucleus, chromosomes

• genes, cytoplasm, cell membrane

• DNA, proteins, chloroplasts

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Which system provides shape and support, enables you to move, protects your internal organs, and stores minerals?

• skeletal
• muscular
• digestive
• nervous