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41

A new organism from Mars has been discovered, and its genome has n=12. Although these organisms are fluorescent green, their cells undergo meiosis and mitosis in the exact same way that human cells do. After one of these cells undergoes mitosis, how many chromosomes will it have?

  • A. 12
  • B. 4
  • C. 24
  • D. 18
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42

The Mule Bone, a 1930 play written by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, is perhaps the best-known of the few examples of ______ in literature. Most writers prefer working alone, and given that working together cost Hurston and Hughes their friendship, it is not hard to see why. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

  • A) characterization
  • B) interpretation
  • C) collaboration
  • D) commercialization
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43

A student identifies a cell as prokaryotic. Which of the following could NOT be a characteristic of the cell?

  • A. The ability to carry out photosynthesis
  • B. Ribosomes
  • C. A cell wall
  • D. A true nucleus
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44

Over twenty years ago, in a landmark experiment in the psychology of choice, professor Sheena Iyengar set up a jam-tasting booth at a grocery store. The number of jams available for tasting ______ some shoppers had twenty-four different options, others only six. Interestingly, the shoppers with fewer jams to choose from purchased more jam. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

  • A) varied:
  • B) varied,
  • C) varied, while
  • D) varied while
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45

There are 1000 magical beanstalks planted in a row. Each stalk is 10 feet taller than the one before it. The smallest stalk is 10 feet tall. What is the median height of the stalks?

  • A. 5005 ft
  • B. 5000 ft
  • C. 750 ft
  • D. No median can be calculated
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46

Which of the following are reasons why invasive species are often successful? I. Lack of competition II. Lack of predators III. Specialized diet

  • A. II only
  • B. I and III only
  • C. II and III only
  • D. I and II only
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47

In her analysis of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905), scholar Candace Waid observes that the novel depicts the upper classes of New York society as “consumed by the appetite of a soulless ______ an apt assessment given that The House of Mirth is set during the Gilded Age, a period marked by rapid industrialization, economic greed, and widening wealth disparities. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

  • A) materialism
  • B) materialism
  • C) materialism,
  • D) materialism
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48

The phospholipid bilayer is critically important to the separation of the internal and external environment of the cell. What drives the formation of the phospholipid bilayer?

  • A. None of these
  • B. The external environment pushes non-polar hydrophobic fatty acid tails to form the inner layer and the polar hydrophobic head groups to form the outer layer.
  • C. The external environment pushes non-polar hydrophilic fatty acid tails to form the inner layer and the polar hydrophobic head groups to form the outer layer.
  • D. The external environment pushes non-polar hydrophobic fatty acid tails to form the inner layer and the polar hydrophilic head groups to form the outer layer.
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49

What's the median? 13,2,16,8,34,26

  • A. 18
  • B. 14.5
  • C. 11.5
  • D. 21
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50

Political scientists who favor the traditional view of voter behavior claim that voting in an election does not change a voter’s attitude toward the candidates in that election. Focusing on each US presidential election from 1976 to 1996, Ebonya Washington and Sendhil Mullainathan tested this claim by distinguishing between subjects who had just become old enough to vote (around half of whom actually voted) and otherwise similar subjects who were slightly too young to vote (and thus none of whom voted). Washington and Mullainathan compared the attitudes of the groups of subjects toward the winning candidate two years after each election. Which finding from Washington and Mullainathan’s study, if true, would most directly weaken the claim made by people who favor the traditional view of voter behavior?

  • A) Subjects
  • B) Subjects who were not old enough to vote in a given election held significantly more positive attitudes towards the winning candidate two years later than they held at the time of the election.
  • C) Subjects who voted in a given election held significantly more polarized attitudes toward the winning candidate two years later than did subjects who were not old enough to vote in that election.
  • D) Two years after a given election, subjects who voted and subjects who were not old enough to vote were significantly more likely to express negative attitudes than positive attitudes toward the winning candidate in that election.
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